Bottles, recycling

A different concept is the idea of manufacturing at point of use rather than transporting materials. A simple and familiar example is the office water cooler. The majority that you see around use large bottles of water. These need to be transported and stored and the empty bottles recycled. More than 600 kT of bottled water were imported into the UK in 1999, creating a significant transport impact. The alternative is to chill and filter mains water on-site. The water needs to be filtered and purified to meet consumer perceptions and expectations. These systems use a mixture of purification techniques including advanced filters, UV-disinfection and silver-treated surfaces to give users the confidence they require. 

Polyester-6/oe/ -polycarbonate, 7 646 Polyester bottles, recycling, 20 54-56 Polyester can coatings, 13 39 Polyester carbonates, 19 822 Polyester-carboxyl powder coatings 1998 production, 7 49 Polyester composites, cross-linked, 20 114 Polyester composition, determining, 20 21 Polyester diols, 25 476... 

Thermoplastic molding applications for VDC copolymers, 25 726-727 Thermoplastic olefin polymer of amorphous structure (TOPAS), 16 113 Thermoplastic polyester bottles, recycling, 20 54-56... 

Rieckmann, Th. and Volker, S., Product quality of recycled food grade PET from a bottle to bottle recycling process, presentation given at the ECCE-3 Conference, Nuremberg, Germany, June 26-28, 2001 (published on CD-Rom). 

Accordingly, PET bottle recycling is increasing steadily, an effect which is compounded by an overall increase in consumption amounts and collection rates in some markets. On a world-wide basis, doubling of the PET bottle collection... 

The majority of the early mechanical recycling solutions for PET bottles were based on open-loop systems for use in applications such as fibre, fibre fill, strapping or sheet. More recently, solutions were developed which create closed-loop bottle-to-bottle recycling [113, 114, 115],... 

For a comprehensive bottle-to-bottle recycling process, several stringent requirements have to be fulfilled [128], including the following ... 

Several bottle-to-bottle recycling technologies have been developed to convert washed PET flakes to food-grade PET pellets [129,130], They can be categorized by four different ways of processing. The succession of process steps has an influence on the final result. To see the implications, each process option has to be evaluated with respect to the requirements discussed before. Some of these critical aspects are indicated in Table 4.2. 

Christel, A., Advanced PET bottle-to-bottle recycling, presentation given at the Polyester 2000 5th World Congress, Maack Business Services, 8804 Au/near Zurich, Switzerland, 28 November-1 December, 2000. 

Christel, A., Closed loop bottle-to-bottle recycling, Nova-Pack Europe 2000 Diisseldorf/Neuss, Schotland Business Research, Inc., Skillman, NJ, September 2000, p. 273. 

Toloken, S., Chicago Getting Ail-Bottles Recycling Site, PN, Jun. 2, 2003. 

Moore, S., Reactive Extrusion Aids Bottle-to-Bottle Recycling, MP, Mar. 2003. 

D.O Sullivan, PET Bottles Recycled into Insulation Foam. Chem Eng. News, 68, 25, Feb. 12... 

In 2004, the amount of plastic bottles recycled reached an all-time high of... 

Use 10-60 times, then remake into a different object with a long life (polycarbonate milk bottle recycled into a part for an automobile). 

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