Plastics basics

Plastics basics

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Plastics basics

A widely used process for the production of hollow thermoplastic shapes. The process is divided into two general categories: extrusion blow moulding and injection blow molding. These processes are ...

Buy-back recycling centres

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A commercially located, staffed recycling facility that purchases small amounts of post-consumer plastic secondary materials from the public. Buy-back centres typically purchase aluminium cans and ...

Co-collection

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The act of picking up post-consumer plastic (or secondary) materials or compostable materials simultaneously with garbage. (The Recycler's Lexicon: A Glossary of Contemporary Terms and Acronyms, ...

Co-combustion

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The simultaneous combustion of two or more fuel types to provide useful energy. Generally, a primary fuel is combusted with one or more supplemental fuels. Examples would include the co-combustion of ...

Coextrusion

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Involves a process where parts are blow-molded with walls containing two or more layers of different material. Coextrusion offers wide latitude for material selection and also allows the use of ...

Additives

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A diverse group of specialty chemicals incorporated into plastic formulations before or during processing, or to the surfaces of finished products after processing. Their primary purpose is to modify ...

Advanced recycling technologies (ART)

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Processes that yield a variety of versatile and marketable end-products that are the building blocks from which new plastics and a variety of other products can be manufactured. This is achieved by ...