Reutilization of Plastics

The reutilization of waste materials has inereasingly been the subject of pubhc discussion over past decades. In place of waste, it is actually more correct to say scrap material . This indicates, that we are necessarily dealing with re-usable material, although it exists in a different form. ReutUization means, that collected waste materials are not left unused, but are treated, returned to the production cycle as a starting material, and processed to create new products. [Pg.112]

These considerations have led to the idealistic concept of utilizing all substances in a manner similar to natural processes-that is, to reintroduce them into a cycle. Therefore recycling is not just a means of producing goods more cost-effectively, but it also greatly reduces environmental hazards. [Pg.112]

Recycling not only reduces the amount of waste, that has to be disposed of, but it also represents a great saving of natural resources and energy, that would otherwise be required for producing new material. [Pg.112]

Recycling of plastics can be regarded as technically solved in principle, there are no longer any plastics, that are not reusable. No other material offers so many recycling possibilities, as plastics materials do. [Pg.112]

Which recycling process represents the ecologically and economically most suitable one, is subject to a series of factors. There are three basically different [Pg.112]

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