Understanding Plastics Recycling

Economic, Ecological, and Technical Aspects of Plastic Waste Handling
2. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-56990-846-4
Verlag: Hanser Fachbuchverlag

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 383 g

This book shows the true and often-underestimated market potential of plastics recycling, with analysis from economic, ecological, and technical perspectives. It is aimed at both technical and non-technical readers, including decision makers in material suppliers, plastic product manufacturers, governmental agencies, educators, and anyone with a general interest in plastics recycling.

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rudolph, Natalie

Kiesel, Raphael

Aumnate, Chuanchom

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Abfallbeseitigung, Abfallentsorgung
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Technologie der Kunststoffe und Polymere
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik

Leseproben

Contents:
Plastics-Increasing Value, Decreasing Lifetime
Plastics Recycling-Conservation of Valuable Resources
Economic Analysis of Plastic Waste Handling
Environmental Analysis of Plastic Waste Handling
Optimization of Plastics Recycling
Plastic Waste around the World: Increasing Potential of Recycling
Details of Economic Analyses and Optimizations

Über Autor(innen)

Aumnate, Chuanchom
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.

Kiesel, Raphael
Raphael Kiesel, M.S. is a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology, Germany. He was previously a Research Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Rudolph, Natalie
Dr.-Ing. Natalie Rudolph is Business Field Manager Polymers at NETZSCH. 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. Natalie Rudolph is Business Field Manager Polymer at NETZSCH. 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.
Raphael Kiesel, M.S. is a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology, Germany. He was previously 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 Business Field Manager Polymers at NETZSCH. 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.

Raphael Kiesel, M.S. is a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology, Germany. He was previously 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.