Plastic Waste Management
Depolymerization to plastic
Depolymerization using either pyrolysis or gasification breaks plastic down to simpler hydrocarbon compounds. In the low-oxygen environment polymers…
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Plastic Waste Management
PVC – THE POISONOUS POLYMER
Polyvinyl chloride or PVC stands out as one of the most difficult plastic wastes to manage and causes…
January 29, 2022 · Rajil TLPlastic Waste Management
WHAT PLASTIC ACTUALLY GETS RECYCLED AND WHAT DOES NOT?
The answer depends, to some degree, on which country you live in. As noted in the previous section,…
January 29, 2022 · Rajil TLPlastic Waste Management
PLASTIC RECYCLING IN LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES
Environmentally sound management of plastic waste requires carefully designed municipal and industrial waste collection, separation, and cleaning or…
January 29, 2022 · Rajil TLPlastic Waste Management
IS IT REALLY RECYCLING OR JUST EXPORT?
While much of the following discussion is around technical issues detailing which technologies can recycle which polymers using…
January 29, 2022 · Rajil TLPlastic Waste Management
PLASTIC RECYCLING
As the pressure to deal with plastic waste grows daily, new technologies and concepts for plastic waste management…
January 29, 2022 · Rajil TLPlastic Waste Management
ADDITIVES OF GLOBAL CONCERN: PHENOLIC BENZOTRIAZOLES UV -326, UV-327 AND UV-328
Stabilizer additives have not received as much attention in the literature as some other additives but have recently…
January 29, 2022 · Rajil TLPlastic Waste Management
TOXIC ADDITIVES
A significant challenge to the recycling of plastic is the widespread use of chemical additives in the formulations…
January 29, 2022 · Rajil TLPlastic Waste Management
WHAT ARE MONOMERS, POLYMERS AND PLASTICS?
Plastics are essentially large units of smaller linked molecular building blocks called ‘monomers’. Monomers are made up of…
January 29, 2022 · Rajil TLPlastic Waste Management
PLASTIC ACCELERATES CLIMATE CHANGE
Every stage in the lifecycle of plastics generates significant emissions of greenhouse gasses which drive climate change and…
January 29, 2022 · Rajil TL