Plastics Europe

Plastics Europe (2007) BPA applications. http //www.bisphenol-a-etu ope.org/uploads/BPA %20applications.pdf. Accessed August 2011... 

PLASTIC EUROPE, Association of Plastics manufacturers in Europe SEFEL, European Secretariat of Manufacturers of Light Metal Packaging... 

GMP Flexible Packaging Europe www.fpe.org another paper on GMP has been recently prepared by the European Plastics Converters Association, Flexible Packaging Europe, Plastics Europe and CEFIC-Food Contact Additives panel and forwarded to the European Commission for comments before being made public. 

APME (Association of Plastics Manufacturers Europe, today Plastics Europe), with member companies given in [29] has classified plastic waste in a series of categories and monitors their origin and recycling, according to their field of application. Several early publications are still of interest, to compare past and present. A recent book on plastics recycling is Scheirs [38]. A few sites of interest are also ... 

Selected from Plastics Europe [1]. Given as consumption, rather than production. 

Plastics Europe, Plastics in Europe 2002 2003, Assoc, of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe, Brussels, Belgium, 2004. Available at www.plasticseurope.org... 

Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe, Piastics The Facts 2013, http //www.plastics europe.or information-centre/news/latest-news/access-plastics-statistics.aspx, accessed 10/06/14... 

For example, if we consider the set of biodegradable and/or bio-based polymers, a recent market study published by the organization European Bioplastics (http //en.european-bioplastics.org/) shows that world capacity for production of these polymers, in 2012, was only around 1.4 million tons, of which 0.6 milhon were accounted for by biodegradable polymers. Compare this with worldwide plastic consumption of 288 million tons, of which, 57 million tons were in Europe alone, according to Plastics-Europe (http //www.plasticseurope.org), in 2012. Recent projections - particularly that presented by European Bioplastics - show that these very rapidly growing polymers will, nevertheless, remain a niche market for the next 10 years. They will account for only a small percent of the world plastic market. Thus, it is not envisaged that these polymers can totally replace conventional plastics. 

Figure 11.1. Overview of plastic recycling in Europe (Plastic Europ 2012)...

Netherlands. In relation to these countries, France, which was in third position in 1997, slipped to last position (between 2008 and 2010), and remained constantly in the last place in terms of plastic recycling between 1997 and 2010, as shown in Figure 11.1 (Plastic Europ 2010),... 

PLA 10] Plastics Europe, Plastiques 2010 faits et chiffres, http //www.plasticseurop.org, also see www.plastcseurope.fr/industiie-du-plastique.asppx, 2010. 

Plastics Europe. Plastics—the Facts 2013. An anatysis of European latest plastics production, demand and waste data. Brussels 2013. 

For extensive additional data go to the homepage of Plastics Europe (http // www.plasticseurope.org). 

Fig. 3 Pyrolysis of plastic wastes at 600-900 °C under exclusion of oxygen in a reactor with a fluidized bed of sand that behaves like a high-density liquid, keeps the plastic waste suspended and makes heat transfer more efficient (photography by Plastics Europe)...

Brandt B, PUz, H. The impact of plastic packaging on life cycle energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. Plastic Europe and Denkstatt GmbH Hietzinger HauptstraBe 28 1130 Vienna, Austria. 2011. Available at www.denkstatt.at. Accessed October 8, 2014. 

Over 65% of the global production of BPA is used to make PC and another 30% for epoxy resin production (Plastics Europe, 2010). Based on the 2010 data, however, only 7% of the PC was used in packaging and medical device applications. Most are instead used in construction as glazing or in media (CD and DVD applications) and in electrical/electronic applications. These non-packaging uses pose a lower risk. About a third of this global production is used in the United States. BPA is perhaps the most controversial of plastic-related EDCs present in the environment and is attributed to at least the following sources (Geens et al., 2011). 

Plastics Europe. 2010. The plastics portal. Downloaded from http //www.plasticseurope.org/ cited Nov 3, 2010. 

Plastics Europe, European Plastic Convertors (EuPC), European Plastic Recyclers (EuPR), Epro Plastic Recycling (EPRO). The Compelling facts about plastics—an analysis of European plastics production, demand and recovery for 2008. 2009. 

Plastics Europe Association, Plastics - the Facts 2012, Brussels, 2012. 

Table 6.1 shows figures from Plastics Europe for Western European polymer consumption in 2002 and 2003. The figures demonstrate the dominance of polyolefins when consumption is measured in tonnage terms (21 M tonnes out of a total of 38 M tonnes of thermoplasties). 

Total thermoplastic figures given by Plastics Europe (formerly APME) are not precisely the same as the sum of the nonthermosetting contributions, for various reasons, but differences are small (see www.apme.org for details) ... 

Recycling has become a major issue in the plastics industry in the past eight or ten years. The amount of plastics mechanically recycled in Western Europe at present is about 2.5 M tonnes/y, with feedstock recycling still less than 0.5 M tonnes, according to APME (Plastics Europe). 

E Schulz, G Kalinka, S Meretz, A Hampe. Pull-out of Single Fibres A Method of Determining Interfacial Strength. Kunststoffe Plastics Europe Vol. 86, May 1996, pp 25-26. 

The Compelling Pacts about Plastics 2007 An Analysis of Plastic Production, Demand and Recovery for 2007 in Europe, Plastics Europe, Brussels, Belgium, 2008. 

W. Michaeh, T. Juntgen and A. Brunswick, WIT-an route to series production first industrial application of the water injection technique, Kunststoff Plastics, Europe, 91, 37-A2 (2001). 

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