Re-cycling procedures (1): Re-melting

Principle
Thermoplastics which have a melting range at relatively low temperatures can be easily recycled into usable plastics when remelted. Unmixed plastics keep largely their properties, however, specially the sorting of smaller waste constitutes a problem.The remelting process of the unsorted and contaminated plastic waste is an important research area due to the increasing volume of plastic waste. The goal is the reusability of materials such as starting materials for consumer goods such as garden benches among others.

Learning objectives

•  Recycling methods of plastic

Benefits

• Easy teaching and efficient learning by using interactive experimentation PHYWE-Software
• Experiment is part of a complete solution set with experiments for the topic Chemistry of Polymers matched with international curriculum: all topics are covered