Print Email Facebook Twitter Making sense of plastics recycling Title Making sense of plastics recycling Author Van Bruggen, E. Koster, R.P. Rageart, K. Cardon, L. Moerman, M. Blessing, E. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Design Engineering Date 2012-12-31 Abstract Major benefits of plastics recycling are reduced depletion of non-renewable resources and reduction of world-wide waste. Traditional thermo-mechanical recycling causes reduction of mechanical properties for most thermoplastics. Down-cycled materials may nevertheless be suited for certain useful applications. Developing such applications may be a step towards more effective future use of resources. Increased application of recycled thermoplastics is generally preferable over landfills, or waste lying around in some parts of the world. Different recycled high-impact polystyrenes (HIPS) from TVs were mechanically tested, as well as mixtures of them. Mixtures of a low-density polyethylene (LDPE) and a polypropylene (PP) were tested as well, representing a large portion of mixed plastics waste. A contribution was made to a process improvement for creating products from street waste in Kenya. Mixing different recycled HIPS grades gave no significant changes in melt flow index and impact strength. One mixture showed a significant reduction in tensile strength. In PP-LDPE mixtures there was an indication of improved mechanical impact resistance of the PP by addition of LDPE in several percentages. In Kenya a separation process utilizing simple equipment To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d1642cf3-5193-47c1-a17a-59e8d8a67d97 Source Polymers and Moulds innovation; proceedings of the 5th international PMI conference, Ghent, Belgium, 12-14 Sept., 2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2012 The Authors Files PDF 2859591.pdf 1.55 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:d1642cf3-5193-47c1-a17a-59e8d8a67d97/datastream/OBJ/view