Abstract: Described herein are methods of recycling polypropylene based personal protective equipment. The method may comprise the steps of: (a) conveying a feed of personal protective equipment; (b) cleaning at least a portion of the feed of personal protective equipment; (c) fragmenting the personal protective equipment into a plurality of fragments, the plurality of fragments comprising non-polypropylene fragments and polypropylene fragments; (d) separating at least a portion of the non-polypropylene fragments from the polypropylene fragments to produce a batch of polypropylene fragments; and (e) pelletizing the batch of polypropylene fragments to produce polypropylene pellets.