Environment and Industrial Waste

The open burning of waste plastic causes the emission of gases and chemicals which are toxic [9], and the recycling activities of plastics in electronic waste (E-waste) have resulted in high levels of pollution in the ambient environment. These activities threaten the ecosystem [10] therefore, driven by profit from the increased cost of plastics, primitive waste recycling processes are now extremely active. 

Matsui and T. Fujiwara, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2011,175, 23. 

Frosch and N.E. Gallopoulos in Scientific American Special Issue, 1989, 216, 3,144. 

Case study methodology is well suited for many types and aspects of plastics waste management. Research into plastics waste is a contemporary development and is complicated by the fact that waste components/processes are difficult to study in isolation. Therefore, case studies do not generate the same results on recycling as controlled experiments however, they provide a deeper rmderstanding of the phenomena under study. 

A case study begins with a description of the background of the problem and the situation is then analysed. In a manufacturing plant, a problem regarding quality requires changing various parameters and mapping input to output data as no accurate theoretical model for solving interrelated process problems exists input and output problems occur due to machine and operator performance. 

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