Old Acrylic panels, what do you do?

[Martin Pearson]

Not really sure what the answer is Warren, I know what you mean about re-using it but the problem I have found is that I hardly ever use acrylic other than opal in lightboxes oh and clear.

I did a couple of jobs on coloured acrylic years ago and still have some reasonable sized pieces which have never been used. My first reaction was if it’s in good condition then keep it but I can’t for the life of me think what for
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[Ian Johnston]

quote Warren Beard:

Hi All

What do you do with old acrylic panels from sign you replaced? I just redid a new sign and the old one had fairly good dark blue acrylic panels in them with just a small amount of cut vinyl on it (not sure if there would be shadowing)

Is this reusable or are there people out there who would want it etc? Or does it just get dumped?

foam and ali panels just get dumped but for some reason I think Acrylic is worth more or more desirable or reusable by others?

am I wrong or just crazy?

cheers

Waren

your foam and ali are the two waste products i get money for, along with correx scraps.
plastic recyclers take the other two.
it’ll surprise you how little ali it takes to get £100 in the scrapyard.

with the likes of perspex, i keep old opal, to back up lightboxes with pushthroughs.

always handy to have some cheap stuff to win a job with. £50 second hand or £250 new, customer will chose

[Mike D]

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[Glenn Sharp]

Ian,

What do you do with your correx scraps?

[Ian Johnston]

quote Glenn Sharp:

Ian,

What do you do with your correx scraps?

It’s Polypropylene, so any plastic recyclers will buy it, very recyclable

[Gary Birch]

These people take acrylic but when I contacted them weren’t interested in foamex or composite. Maybe worth a call.

http://www.polycreclaimers.com/index.htm

Cheers

Gary

[Mike Grant]

I used to give the old panels to our local school. They use it for their technology projects. No value to you if you are never going to use it.

[Martin Pearson]

Did you have to cut it up for them Mike or where they able to do that themselves? Problem I have found with a lot of schools round here is that they would be happy to take stuff from you but don’t most of the time because they have no where to store it, I had about 100 vinyl tubes some with short pieces of vinyl on and went round all the local schools trying to give them away best I managed was one school where the teacher asked if she could have 2 :lol1:

The rest went to the tip but fortunately they have a cardboard recycling bin so they went in that minus the vinyl.

[Mike Grant]

Martin, most of the time if they could get it in their van they took it as it was.