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LANDFILL
Landfill, like incineration for disposal, languishes at the bottom of the waste hierarchy due to its environmental impacts, especially on…
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INCINERATION OF PLASTIC WASTE
The use of incineration to generate energy (waste to energy) from plastic waste is widely acknowledged as counterproductive to a…
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NON-COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGIES FOR MEDICAL PLASTIC WASTE
Under normal circumstances medical facilities generate significant quantities of medical waste, including infectious medical waste that must be carefully managed…
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SUPERCRITICAL WATER OXIDATION (SCWO) AND INDUSTRIAL SUPERCRITICAL WATER OXIDATION (ISCWO)
Both supercritical and subcritical water oxidation systems have been developed by a number of companies over the last 30 years…
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BALL MILLING OR MECHANO-CHEMICAL DESTRUCTION (MCD)
This technology is a mechanochemical application that combines mechanical impact with chemical reagents to create a reduction reaction for chlorinated…
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NON-COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGIES FOR POPs CONTAMINATED PLASTICS
The following technologies have the capability to either destroy POPscontaminated plastic in an environmentally sound manner or separate the POPs…
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DENSITY SEPARATION OF BFR PLASTICS THROUGH SINK/ FLOTATION
An excellent analysis of the use of the sink float method of separation using polymer density is described in an…
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MANAGEMENT OF POPs CONTAMINATED PLASTIC
Plastics that are contaminated with persistent organic pollutants (POPs) because they have been deliberately added to impart a property to…
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DOWNCYCLING
A common problem associated with mechanical recycling is the degradation and mixing of polymers leading to loss of the characteristics…
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TOXIC ADDITIVES CHALLENGE MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL RECYCLING
Numerous institutional, economic, and policy challenges for recycling have already been mentioned in this report, but there are also technical…
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MECHANICAL RECYCLING
Mechanical recycling uses only mechanical methods to reprocess plastic waste and this typically involves grinding, washing, separating, drying, regranulating, and…
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CHEMICAL RECYCLING CONCLUSION
The plastic chemical recycling processes are emerging technologies that are almost entirely at pilot stage with the exception of some…
