Plastic Carry Bag Shredder and Plastic Bag Recycling Machine

Yes, LDPE and HDPE film is one of the most reprocessed plastics in India. Once shredded, washed where needed and agglomerated, the material extrudes into reprocessed granules used in pipes, sheets, new film and molded goods. Film reprocessors and agglomerator operators buy shredded bag material by the tonne. What they will not buy is loose, unsorted bags, because the handling cost exceeds the material value. Shredding is the step that converts a storage nuisance into a tradeable raw material.

Three behaviours: film floats, wraps and stretches. In a high-speed blade grinder, near-weightless bags ride the air current above the blades instead of entering the cut. Whatever does catch tends to wrap around the rotor shaft in layers until the motor stalls. And stretchy PE film absorbs blade impact instead of fracturing the way rigid plastic does. A dual shaft shredder avoids all three by gripping the film between interlocked, counter-rotating blades and tearing it through at low speed: see how the dual shaft platform works.

Not in an office paper shredder: film wraps around its cutters and jams it. In an industrial dual shaft shredder, yes: empty garbage bags are LDPE or HDPE film like carry bags, and they shred the same way. Empty the bags first, and keep food and wet waste, glass, metal and stones out of the feed. Bags still full of mixed household waste need a waste processing line, not a plastic recycling machine.

No, shred first, wash after. Washing whole bags is impractical: they trap water, nest inside each other and refuse to dry. The standard line order is sort, shred, then wash the shredded film, because small strips wash and dry far more efficiently. What you must do before shredding is remove non-film contaminants (stones, metal, glass and wet organic waste) both to protect the blades and to keep the output saleable. Clean retail and mall bags often skip washing entirely and go straight to agglomeration.

Mechanically, yes: a dual shaft shredder tears both, because the cutting action does not distinguish PE film from PP fabric. The issue is downstream: PE and PP are different polymers, and a mixed shred sells at mixed-plastic prices, while segregated streams each fetch more. If your collection is dominated by non-woven bags, the DS5007 dual shaft shredder with a sorted PP-only stream earns better realisation. Most dry-waste centres sort by bag type first and shred in campaign runs: same machine, separate batches.

Work from your daily film intake in kilograms. We size the dual shaft model against that figure so an 8-hour shift clears your intake with steady feeding, comfortably ahead of most ward-level DWCC film volumes, which leaves headroom for growth or second-shift aggregation. Remember that loose bags feed slower than their rated weight suggests because of their volume, so practical throughput depends on feeding discipline. Send us your daily intake and we will size the machine, or walk through our machine selection guide first.

There is no list price, because every machine is quoted to the job. The price follows the type and model (a dual shaft shredder for loose bags, a single shaft for baled lumps), its capacity and motor, your material, MS or SS construction, options such as a conveyor or a control panel, and how you feed and discharge it. Our guide to plastic shredder machine price explains each factor. Send us your bag mix and daily intake and we will size the machine and quote it.

Yes. Collection-centre material varies enormously (moisture, dirt load, bag mix), so a trial on your actual material is the surest test. Bring a representative gunny or two from a normal collection day, not a cleaned-up sample, and you will see realistic feeding behaviour, throughput and output. Contact us to arrange one.