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Recycling, Volume 3, Issue 4

December 2018 - 13 articles

Cover Story: Domestic waste thermoplastic material is recycled throughout the world; however, large quantities end up in landfill or contribute to uncontrolled pollution. This is due to the requirement to clean and then sort the material, which reduces recycling efficiency. A method has been developed to directly shred uncleaned, unsorted thermoplastic material, which is subsequently recycled into reinforced re-formative polymer lumber, for use in certain structural applications including railway sleepers, communication poles, and coastal defences. The re-formative polymer can be used in place of wooden or concrete materials, thus offering concomitant environmental benefits. As such, the re-formative polymer was studied to determine its thermal and mechanical properties and demonstrate its potential use in these structural applications.View Paper here.
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Articles (13)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,306 Views
15 Pages

18 December 2018

Enormous amount of scrap is generated on the shopfloor during manufacturing. Energy needed to melt increasing quantities of scrap will be ever increasing, and so will be the loss of metal during melting. Hence, conversion of scrap directly into marke...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
20,933 Views
12 Pages

14 December 2018

Agricultural products such as cassava produce huge amounts of waste when processed into consumable goods. The waste generated is generally considered to contribute largely to environmental pollution. This study therefore investigates the waste manage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
13,839 Views
19 Pages

28 November 2018

The main objective of this research was to provide suitable technical, organizational, financial, legal, and social indicators for solid waste management (SWM) systems, which can be used to diagnose the current situation faced by tourist destinations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
8,142 Views
13 Pages

28 November 2018

The recyclability of polystyrene, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene and polyvinylchloride waste and their use as a source for 3D printing were studied. Filaments of about 3 mm in diameter were extruded successfully with a small-size extruder. The proce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,293 Views
14 Pages

A Biowaste Treatment Technology Assessment in Malawi

  • Wrixon Mpanang’ombe,
  • Elizabeth Tilley,
  • Imanol Zabaleta and
  • Christian Zurbrügg

27 November 2018

In the city of Blantyre, much of the generated municipal waste is biowaste, typically mixed with other waste fractions and disposed at the city’s dumpsite. Energy and nutrients could be recovered; however, with many biowaste options available,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,521 Views
16 Pages

Re-Formative Polymer Composites from Plastic Waste: Novel Infrastructural Product Application

  • Richard P. Turner,
  • Catherine A. Kelly,
  • Rod Fox and
  • Bill Hopkins

23 November 2018

A novel re-formative polymer composite manufacturing route has been developed by UK and Qatar-based Universities. This novel process recycles domestic-waste thermoplastic material, without the requirement for intensive filtering or washing operations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
8,415 Views
13 Pages

Reclaimed Carbon and Flax Fibre Composites: Manufacturing and Mechanical Properties

  • Marco L. Longana,
  • Vaclav Ondra,
  • HaNa Yu,
  • Kevin D. Potter and
  • Ian Hamerton

22 November 2018

The feasibility of using the HiPerDiF (high performance discontinuous fibre) method to manufacture highly aligned discontinuous fibres intermingled hybrid composites with flax and reclaimed carbon fibres (rCF), and the potential benefits of so doing,...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,042 Views
8 Pages

22 November 2018

The agricultural use of sewage sludge brings benefits to soil and plant crops, but due to the possible presence of contaminating substances and pathogenic organisms it is necessary to follow the criteria for safe use for health and the environment. I...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,317 Views
11 Pages

12 November 2018

There is lack of uniform nomenclature for healthcare waste (HCW) globally, which could undermine efforts to develop and implement appropriate policies relating to healthcare waste management (HCWM) in developing countries. This study sought to unders...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
6,821 Views
14 Pages

11 November 2018

Municipal solid waste incinerator fly ash (MSWI-FA) was used synergistically with volcanic ash (VA) to synthesize Geopolymer cement. The effects of the incorporation of 0%, 30%, and 50% of VA and the alkalinity of activating solution on the structure...

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