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Recycling postconsumer PVC bottles: Technology and market development
Author(s) -
Carroll William F.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of vinyl technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.295
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1548-0585
pISSN - 0193-7197
DOI - 10.1002/vnl.730160314
Subject(s) - high density polyethylene , volume (thermodynamics) , waste management , business , materials science , engineering , polyethylene , composite material , physics , quantum mechanics
The drive to recycle individual polymers in a “closed‐loop”—that is, bottles‐to‐bottles—began in the late 1980s. Technology and market streams for high‐volume packaging plastics like HDPE and PET evolved first. Smaller‐volume packaging plastics have followed. This article describes technology development and the state of the market, including general economics for vinyl recycling. Recycling of PVC packaging, to say nothing of recycling of other plastics, continues to evolve and should be viewed as a work‐in‐progress; still, closed‐loop recycling of PVC bottles is a commercial reality.