Analysis of Recycling Potential

A value analysis should be made, to determine how much of the product, or which sections of it, can effectively be recovered. As noted already, the decision may not be wholly on economic grounds. Other non-market factors, such as legislation and image/good-will may also have to be considered. Overall, however, is the fact that, almost irrespective of the value of the materials recovered, the time and therefore the cost of dismantling will usually be disproportionate. Consideration should be given to incinerate rather than recycle when certain materials provide no benefit to the environment particularly cost wise. 

Chemistry is a science that deals with the composition, structure, and properties of substances and the transformations they undergo. Its value and importance continue to permit an endless growth of new plastics with improved fabricating and product performances. Examples of stages in plastic manufacturing follows  

Basic chemicals Petroleum is converted to petrochemicals such as ethylene, benzene, propylene, and Acetylene. 

Monomers Petrochemicals plus other chemicals is converted into monomers such as styrene, ethylene, propylene, vinyl chloride, and acrylonitrile. 

Polymerization One or more monomers are polymerized to form polymers or copolymers such as polyethylene, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, and polypropylene. 

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