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2011-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
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| Editors: | Florian K |
| Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
| Publication Year: | 2012 |
| Pages: | 754 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9879917-3-7 |
| ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
Recycling Of Plastics From Post-Consumer Electronics: What's The Problem?
M. Teresa Carvalho1;1IST, Lisbon, Portugal;
Type of Paper: Invite
Id Paper: 392
Topic: 12
Abstract:
Electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) represent today a huge amount of wastes which have to be managed according to the highest environmental standards and economic requirements.While in Europe, in average, 4kg of waste from EEE are produced each year per inhabitant, in Portugal this value increases to 4.7, which represented 45 000tons in 2009, 30% of the EEE commercialized in that year.The management of this stream of waste, specially its processing and valorization of materials, is today a challenge due to multiple problems. One major problem is the heterogeneity associated and the large amount of types of materials, namely polymers. In the lecture, firstly, the characterization of waste from EEE is addressed; the special topics of sampling and material analysis are discussed. Then, the problems related with materials separation are dealt with. Current practice and some case studies are presented as well as the new developments in the subject.