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Understanding Plastics Recycling

  • 1st Edition - August 25, 2017
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Natalie Rudolph
  • Language: English

Understanding Plastics Recycling shows the true and often-underestimated market potential of plastics recycling, with analysis from economic, ecological, and technical perspecti… Read more

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Understanding Plastics Recycling shows the true and often-underestimated market potential of plastics recycling, with analysis from economic, ecological, and technical perspectives. It is aimed at both technical and non-technical readers, including decision makers in material suppliers, plastic product manufacturers, governmental agencies, educators, and anyone with a general interest in plastics recycling.

An overview of waste handling systems with a focus on the U.S. market is provided. Different methods of waste handling are compared from both economic and ecological perspectives.

Since plastic waste recycling is essential from an ecological point of view, common strategies and new approaches to both increase the recycling rate and improve recycling economically and technically are presented. This includes processing and material properties of recycled plastics.

Finally, a worldwide outlook of plastic recycling is provided with analysis of additional worldwide markets, encompassing highly developed, fast-developing, and less developed countries.

Key features

  • Utilises a global approach to plastic recycling market analysis, including broad data from both low and highly developed countries
  • Details strategies for improving cost efficiency of recycling, by targeting material properties for improved processing
  • Provides information from both an ecological and economic standpoint, to aid ethical and financial decision making in industry

Readership

Decision-makers in material suppliers, plastic product manufacturers, governmental agencies, educators, and anyone with a general interest in plastics recycling

Table of contents

1. All About the Waste2. Plastics - Increasing Value, Decreasing Lifetime3. Plastics Recycling - Conservation of Valuable Resources4. Economic Analysis of Plastic Waste Handling5. Environmental Analysis of Plastic Waste Handling6. Optimization of Plastics Recycling7. Plastic Waste of the World: Increasing Potential of Recycling

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 25, 2017
  • Language: English

About the author

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Natalie Rudolph

Dr.-Ing. Natalie Rudolph is Business Field Manager Polymer at NETZSCH. She was previously Director of R&D in Composites at AREVO, Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering, and Team Leader at the Fraunhofer Institute ICT, Germany
Affiliations and expertise
Dr.-Ing. Natalie Rudolph is Business Field Manager Polymer at NETZSCH.

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