Valorization of packaging plastic waste by slow pyrolysis
12/07/2017
Low and high-density polyethylene (LDPE and HDPE) and polypropylene (PP) are three most common polyolefins profusely used as packaging materials and abundantly found in the plastic waste stream.
Currently not all plastic material is recycled and much of it ends up in landfills, or in nature . Given the slow biodegradation of plastic in nature, it can become an element with an environmental impact.
This scientific article described how plastic waste samples were collected from household waste and converted into plastic derived oil (PDO) by low temperature (300 C to 400 C) slow pyrolysis (long isothermal holding time) in a semi-batch reactor. |