Plastics waste household data

Mixed plastics waste appears to be well suited for use in energy recovery, either as a co-eombustion fuel in a power plant designed for solid fuels, or as the sole fuel in speeially designed plants. This paper reports test results on the co-combustion of mixed household plasties with eoal. The tests were performed in a bubbling fluidised bed low-pressure steam boiler. The results show that both inorganic and organic total specific emissions were lower for mixed household plasties than for coal. Tabulated data are presented. 3 refs. 

The polymeric part of the household waste consists of more than 90 wt% of thermoplastics (mainly from plastics packaging) and less than 10% of thermosets. The composition of the household plastics waste and packaging plastics, respectively, from different countries is shown in Table 1. The data were gathered in a study ordered by the Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe (APME) [1] and in other investigations [2-7]. The results show that polyolefins (PE, PP) have the highest proportion in the municipal waste. The other polymeric components present in larger quantities are... 

FU2 lifecycle of a material as defined in Figure 7.1 (material, shaping processes, transport and end of life). The respective masses of the different materials for FU2 are given in Table 7.2. The masses of the bottle with the different types of plastics are considered to be identical (within 1 g). The data for the end-of-life scenario (household waste, in France) are taken from a study conducted by ADEME in 2009. 

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