Category:Plastics recovery manual

This category lists all pages in the Plastics recovery manual (made by ISF-IAI).

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Purpose of the guide
  • Why recycle plastic waste?
  • To whom is this guide adressed ?

• Chapter 2: Plastics
  • What are plastics ?
    • Polymers
    • Plastics
    • Plastic objects
    • Plastic waste

• • How to identify plastics ?
    • General criteria
    • Marking systems
    • Shaping marks
    • Fingernail scratching (hardness test)
    • Flame test
    • Density test
    • Specific tests for confirmation

• Chapter 3: Collection
  • Sources of waste
    • Industrial waste
    • Commercial waste
    • Agricultural waste
    • Municipal waste

• • Evaluation of a deposit
    • Choosing a prospecting area
    • Characteristics of the studied area
    • Inventory of waste plastics sources
    • Characteristics of collected waste

• • Collection systems
    • Sensibilization
    • Selective collection systems

• Chapter 4: The physical preparation of plastics
  • What is physical preparation ?
  • Placement of the recycling center
  • Sorting
    • Why sorting ?
    • How to sort ?
    • Implementing the sorting

• • The washing and drying
    • Decontamination
    • Washing
    • Drying
    • Downsizing
    • Pre-cutting
    • Crushing

• Chapter 5: The shaping of plastics
  • What techniques are available ?
  • Granulation
    • The extruder
    • The cooling system
    • The granulator

• • The extrusion
    • Profile extrusion
    • Blow molding (hollow bodies)
    • Calendering extrusion (sheets, plates)
    • Inflation extrusion (films)

• • The injection molding
    • General
    • Injection plunger presses (injection-transfer)
    • Injection screw presses

• Chapter 6: Economic Considerations
  • Costs of recycling
    • The purchase of plastics
    • Investment costs
    • Treatment costs

• • Opportunities
    • Inventory of market opportunities
    • Sale of recycled plastics

• Chapter 7: Ecology and safety
  • Environmental problems
    • Hygiene problems related to waste
    • Chemicals
    • Air pollution
    • Noise
  • Work safety
  • Quality of endproducts from recycling

• Chapter 8: Appendixes