Burn ‘Em All Or Sort ‘Em Out: Recycle vs. Incineration

4/15/2000


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Burn ‘Em All Or Sort ‘Em Out: Recycle vs. Incineration

Objective

Why Recycle or Incinerate

Definition of plastic

Two types of polymers

Thermoplastic and Thermoset Wastes Per Sector

Seven different types of plastic resins

Continued

Continued

Defining the numbers

Recycling

Growth in post-consumer plastic bottles

Growth in plastic bottles recycling

Comparing recycling rate of plastic bottles between 1997-1998

The Recycling process

Other Forms of Recycling

Incineration

Incineration Process

Advantages of Incineration

Advantages of Recycling

Conclusions

Questions?

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Email: tnbrown@acsu.buffalo.edu

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