Thermoplastic applications in building

Recycling is particularly important for the building civil engineering market, the sector with the second-largest consumption of thermoplastics. Unfortunately, plastics recycling presents technical and economic difficulties and is less advanced, industrially, than that of metals or glass. 

The main polymer recycling method for building and construction wastes is mechanical recycling, which accounts for around 10% of the collected wastes. Landfill and incineration are used far too much, representing 90% of the total wastes. 

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