With the extensive use of plastic in our daily lives, the increasing requirements for disposal
and quality control of plastic products raise more concerns. Laser-induced breakdown …

Circular economy strategies encourage, among others, concrete actions to extend the
product lifetime. Product's repair and reuse, and component harvesting for reuse, all require …

Newly defined categories of WEEE have increased the types of China's regulated WEEE
from 5 to 14. Identification of the amounts and valuable-resource components of the “new” …

Major-religious festivals hosted in the city of Kerbala, Iraq, annually generate large
quantities of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) which negatively impacts the environment and …

The major technical limitations in polymer recycling are their incompatibility between each
other and their ageing. In this study, impact reinforced styrenics, namely HIPS and ABS …

The type and quantity of municipal solid waste are important factors for determining how
these wastes should be handled, managed, and valorised. This paper investigates the effect …

Hazardous chemicals in building and construction plastics can lead to health risks due to
indoor exposure and may contaminate recycled materials. We systematically sampled new …

This two paper series describes a method to develop and evaluate innovative recycling
strategies for WEEE plastics. Part A presents a SWOT analysis of a new dismantling based …

Sorting at industrial scale is required to perform mechanical recycling of plastics in order to
obtain properties that could be competitive with virgin polymers. As a matter of fact, the most …

Electronic waste has become one of the fastest growing waste streams in Vietnam, of which
adequate information on its size and its flows is very crucial to efficiently manage it and …