An object of the invention is to provide a method and an apparatus for
recycling plastics which is improved with respect to operation
efficiency, operation environment, lowering degradation of plastics,
recycling cost and environment load including saving energy. The
recycling is made as follows: coarse-crushing used-up plastic products,
separating plastic materials from other foreign matters by air blow
separation, fine-crushing the separated plastics, washing the
fine-crushed plastics by the process using a circulation flow including a
spiral flow in which interaction between crushed plastics helps
themselves clean without washing agents, dewatering the washed plastics,
drying them, removing metallic matters by using metal detector, then
feeding them directly without pelletizing to an injection molding machine
of which nozzle part is equipped with filter and flow-switching mechanism
for cleaning the filter by backwash reverse filtration.