Understanding Plastics Recycling
Economic, Ecological, and Technical Aspects of Plastic Waste Handling
- ISBN: 978-1-56990-848-8
- Buchangaben: 2. Edition, 10/2020
152 Pages,
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.
This revised and expanded second edition also contains a new section on fiber-reinforced plastics and
considerations for recycling them as well as numerous updates on the data and the context analyzed
throughout the book. The spreadsheets used in the economic analyses are also offered as a bonus for
the reader to download from plus.hanser-fachbuch.de/en.
True to the authors’ mission, this book is printed on recycled paper.
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.
This revised and expanded second edition also contains a new section on fiber-reinforced plastics and
considerations for recycling them as well as numerous updates on the data and the context analyzed
throughout the book. The spreadsheets used in the economic analyses are also offered as a bonus for
the reader to download from plus.hanser-fachbuch.de/en.
True to the authors’ mission, this book is printed on recycled paper.
Dr.-Ing. Natalie Rudolph is Division Manager Polymer, NETZSCH Analysing&Testing. 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.
Dr.-Ing. Raphael Kiesel is Senior Vice President, Business Unit Lighting ARRI Group. He was previously a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology, Germany and before that a Research Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Chuanchom Aumnate, Ph.D., is a Researcher at the Metallurgy and Materials Science Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She was previously Research Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr.-Ing. Natalie Rudolph is Division Manager Polymer, NETZSCH Analysing&Testing. 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.
Dr.-Ing. Raphael Kiesel is Senior Vice President, Business Unit Lighting ARRI Group. He was previously a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology, Germany and before that a Research Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Chuanchom Aumnate, Ph.D., is a Researcher at the Metallurgy and Materials Science Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She was previously Research Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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