The last six years have seen a great shift in plastics recycling from the mechanical recycling of the early nineties towards a more intergrated approach in which feedstock recycling and the recovery of incineration energy is encouraged. Based on extensive research of the international recycling industry, this book describes technological advances in polymer recycling from the sorting stage through to recycling processes and end-use applications; provides an overview of state-of-the-art recycling techniques with current and potential applications and draws together and consolidates literature in this rapidly growing field. Due to wide-spread growing concern over the contribution of plastics to environmental pollution, a book which does all of the above is long overdue. In the US and Europe the recycling of polymers is a major political issue and has become an expanding commercial activity. Dr Scheirs places significant emphasis on the recycling of automobile tyres, polyurethane foams, carpets, engineering plastics and fibre-reinforced composites, all of which had been previously thought to be hard to recycle.
Sorting and Separation Techniques
Size Reduction of Recycled Plastics
Melt Filtration of Contamination in Recycled Polymers
Recycling of PET
Recycling of Polyolefins
Recycling of PVC
Polystyrene Recycling
Nylon Recycling
Recycling of Engineering Thermoplastics
Recycling of Polyurethanes
Recycling of Polymers Composities
Rubber Tyre Recycling
Feedstock Recycling—Pyrolysis
Hydrogenation and Gasification
Incineration of Plastic Waste with Energy Recovery
Plastics Lumber Based on Recycled Polymers
Index