Viable plastics recycling from end-of-life electronics

Xiuli Qu; Julie Ann Stuart Williams; Edward R. Grant

doi:10.1109/TEPM.2005.862629

Viable plastics recycling from end-of-life electronics

Xiuli Qu
, Julie Ann Stuart Williams
, Edward R. Grant

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Purdue University
University of West Florida
University of British Columbia

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Abstract

Millions of end-of-life (EOL) electronic products represent more than one million tons of engineering thermoplastics. The economically and environmentally sound recovery of engineering thermoplastics from EOL electronics is a challenge to the sustainability of electronics manufacturing. In this paper, we review the technologies to separate and identify pure post-consumer plastics from EOL electronics, which are followed by the comparison of electronic plastics recycling processes and the network models for plastics recycling processes. We also review successful plastics recycling practices for electronics. In addition, further research directions for recycling plastics from EOL electronics are discussed. © 2006 IEEE.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	25-31
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing
Volume	29
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TEPM.2005.862629
State	Published - Jan 1 2006

Keywords

Disassembly
End-of-life (EOL) electronics
Identification
Plastics recycling
Separation

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