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Recycling, Volume 3, Issue 1

March 2018 - 10 articles

Cover Story: The requirements that packaging items have to meet are highly versatile and therefore cannot be fulfilled by one single material in many cases. Therefore, diverse materials such as different polymer types, metals and fibrous materials are often combined in composite structures. However, these composite structures, such as multilayer packaging films, cannot be recycled economically according to the state of the art. This paper reviews the behaviour of polymer-based multilayer packaging in current end of life treatment systems and critically reviews the most recent research approaches for material recycling. These research approaches include methods that recycle the different materials of the multilayer separately and techniques that process the different materials jointly. View this paper
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Articles (10)

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,336 Views
10 Pages

Valorization of Municipal Waterworks Sludge to Produce Ceramic Floor Tiles

  • Lara Pessin Rodrigues and
  • José Nilson França De Holanda

In municipal waterworks large amounts of waste in the form of sludge have to be discarded. This investigation focuses on the processing of ceramic floor tiles incorporated with a municipal waterworks sludge. Four floor tile formulations containing up...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
11,989 Views
19 Pages

The inedible part (stones, husks, kernels, seeds) of the tree fruits that are currently processed in various regions of Greece constitutes a huge portion of the fruit processing solid waste that remains underexploited. In this review, the existing sc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,787 Views
11 Pages

15 February 2018

Recycling glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) composite materials has been proven to be challenging due to their high mechanical performance and high resistance to harsh chemical and thermal conditions. This work discusses the efforts made in the p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,862 Views
22 Pages

“Universal access to electricity” is proclaimed as the seventh sustainable development goal (SDG 7) of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals list. The achievement of this goal will result in a rapid diffusion of energy technologies th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
25,648 Views
22 Pages

The global air transport industry is predicted to continue its rapid growth. A by-product of air transport operations, however, is the substantial volumes of waste generated at airports. To mitigate the environmental impact of waste and to comply wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
11,374 Views
11 Pages

The theory of planned behavior states that individuals act on their intentions, especially when they have behavioral control. The current study examines how seeking recycling-related procedural information—i.e., information about how and where to rec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
8,787 Views
12 Pages

Social Acceptance for Reclaimed Water Use: A Case Study in Bengaluru

  • Chaya Ravishankar,
  • Sunil Nautiyal and
  • Manasi Seshaiah

The main source of water to the peri-urban areas of Bengaluru is groundwater. Access to groundwater is through tankers, private borewells, Bruhat Bengaluru MahanagaraPalike (Urban Local Body) borewells, and public stand posts. All modes other than ta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
108 Citations
15,930 Views
11 Pages

Concepts for Reusing Composite Materials from Decommissioned Wind Turbine Blades in Affordable Housing

  • Lawrence C. Bank,
  • Franco R. Arias,
  • Ardavan Yazdanbakhsh,
  • T. Russell Gentry,
  • Tristan Al-Haddad,
  • Jian-Fei Chen and
  • Ruth Morrow

The very rapid growth in wind energy technology in the last 15 years has led to a rapid growth in the amount of non-biodegradable, thermosetting fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials used in wind turbine blades. This paper discusses conc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
408 Citations
79,826 Views
26 Pages

Recycling of Polymer-Based Multilayer Packaging: A Review

  • Katharina Kaiser,
  • Markus Schmid and
  • Martin Schlummer

22 December 2017

Polymer-based multilayer packaging materials are commonly used in order to combine the respective performance of different polymers. By this approach, the tailored functionality of packaging concepts is created to sufficiently protect sensitive food...

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