ROTOCYCLE - Novel use of hard to recycle plastics in rotomoulded applications

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Title
ROTOCYCLE - Novel use of hard to recycle plastics in rotomoulded applications

CoPED ID
9563d669-9166-4ebc-a5f7-abbda80a2d0b

Status
Closed


Value
£809,656

Start Date
Jan. 1, 2019

End Date
Sept. 29, 2020

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"Although rotomoulding is a well-established processing technique for the manufacture of products from polymers such as polyethylene, the use of post-consumer waste polyethylene is rare due to the problems associated with achieving good interfacial interaction between the base polymer and post-consumer waste polyethylene resulting in products that having poor mechanical properties. These low carbon footprint fillers could however be used to replace a high proportion of the virgin polymer in rotomoulded articles to enable good quality, eco-friendly commercially viable products to be manufactured reducing the the industries reliance on virgin polymers.

Enabling post-consumer waste polyethylene materials to be used in rotomoulding would increase the variety of materials that are available to Rotomoulders, demonstrating their effectiveness and open up a new and potentially massive market for recyclers to sell their recyclate into, absorbing the growing supply of post consumer waste plastics.

Our project will look to develop a full recycler to manufacturer supply chain for the rotomoulding industry, developing; recyclate grade polymers, the manufacturing processes to use them and confirming through industry standard tests they are suitable for sale into the market."

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Subjects by relevance
  1. Polymers
  2. Plastic
  3. Wastes
  4. Polyethylene
  5. Recycling
  6. Products
  7. Manufacturing
  8. Supply chains
  9. Ecological character

Extracted key phrases
  1. Post consumer waste plastic
  2. Consumer waste polyethylene material
  3. Novel use
  4. Recyclate grade polymer
  5. Virgin polymer
  6. ROTOCYCLE
  7. Base polymer
  8. Rotomoulded application
  9. Rotomoulded article
  10. Viable product
  11. Industry standard test
  12. Good interfacial interaction
  13. Quot;although rotomoulding
  14. Low carbon footprint filler
  15. Industry reliance

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