We had a very successful exhibition at the Silicone Expo Europe 2023. There was tremendous interest in silicone recycling. We want to thank everyone that came to our booth during the exhibition, it was a pleasure meeting all of you!
YES! Products made from silicone rubber such as baking mats, kitchen utensils, baby bottles and pacifiers are recyclable and can be recycled. At ECO USA, we're the first and currently only full-scale silicone recycling plant in the USA.
Uncured silicone rubber contains polymers of different chain lengths. It always comprises a principal silicon-oxygen chain (the siloxane backbone) and an organic moiety bound to the silicon.
ECO USA collects and recycles all types of silicone based specialty chemicals. As our recycling process is quite robust, we collect many types of expired and surplus silanes, siloxanes, and dimethicones.
Commonly labelled as a “cyclomethicone” or “cyclosiloxane”, D4 and D5 (octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane and decamethylcyclopentasiloxane repectively) are common ingredients in the cosmetic industry...