ROTOCYCLE - Novel use of hard to recycle plastics in rotomoulded applications
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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."
Harlequin Manufacturing Limited | LEAD_ORG |
Impact Recycling Limited | PARTICIPANT_ORG |
Queen's University of Belfast | PARTICIPANT_ORG |
Impact Laboratories Limited | PARTICIPANT_ORG |
Subjects by relevance
- Polymers
- Plastic
- Wastes
- Polyethylene
- Recycling
- Products
- Manufacturing
- Supply chains
- Ecological character
Extracted key phrases
- Post consumer waste plastic
- Consumer waste polyethylene material
- Novel use
- Recyclate grade polymer
- Virgin polymer
- ROTOCYCLE
- Base polymer
- Rotomoulded application
- Rotomoulded article
- Viable product
- Industry standard test
- Good interfacial interaction
- Quot;although rotomoulding
- Low carbon footprint filler
- Industry reliance