Journal
WASTE MANAGEMENT & RESEARCH
Volume 35, Issue 2, Pages 200-206Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X16678066
Keywords
Mixed plastic waste; tensile properties; FTIR; elemental analysis
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- ERDF program for Eastern Finland [A71163]
- ARVI (Materials Value Chains) research program
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This paper studies the recyclability of construction and household plastic waste collected from local landfills. Samples were processed from mixed plastic waste by injection moulding. In addition, blends of pure plastics, polypropylene and polyethylene were processed as a reference set. Reference samples with known plastic ratio were used as the calibration set for quantitative analysis of plastic fractions in recycled blends. The samples were tested for the tensile properties; scanning electron microscope-energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy was used for elemental analysis of the blend surfaces and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) analysis was used for the quantification of plastics contents.
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