What is the use of copper and plastic separated from scrap copper wire?

We all know that copper and plastic in scrap copper wire can be recycled, but some recyclers are not very clear about the use of copper and plastic separated from scrap copper wire before starting copper wire recycling business. Today we will discuss this issue.

The copper separated from the waste cable wires, usually it could be processed in the following several ways:

Sold directly on the market:

Usually the recyclers will sell it directly for profit, because the separated copper is pure so it has a good selling market. For example, the price of copper on the market is about seven dollars per kilograms.

The use of copper and plastic separated from scrap copper wire

Made for new products:

Copper is a non-ferrous metal with excellent electrical conductivity and corrosion resistance, which is widely used in electric power, energy and petrochemical, machinery and metallurgy, transportation and other fields.

The copper particles can be used as raw materials instead of electrolytic copper to manufacture metallurgical products, copper foil and copper clad laminates. The plastic separated from scrap copper wire can be used to make new cables or soles or plastic shoes, etc.

Scrap copper wire and the separated copper & plastic

Both copper and plastic separated from scrap copper wire can be used to made new products, so it ’s not a problem to find the market of the copper and plastic.

But how to separate copper and plastic from scrap copper wires? Copper wire granulator machine could achieve it. Copper wire granulator machine adopts dry type physical separation method, no fire no water and chemical, thus no pollution to the environment. After the process, there is no copper in plastic and no plastic in copper. [This article maybe you are interested: How to separate copper from scrap cable wires? ]

Copper wire granulator machine

After reading this article, I believe you have a understanding of the use of copper and plastic separated from scrap copper wire. If you have lots of scrap copper wires for recycling or interested in separating copper from plastic or need a copper wire granulator machine, please feel free to contact us.