TY - JOUR
T1 - Viable plastics recycling from end-of-life electronics
AU - Qu, Xiuli
AU - Williams, Julie Ann Stuart
AU - Grant, Edward R.
PY - 2006/1/1
Y1 - 2006/1/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Disassembly
KW - End-of-life (EOL) electronics
KW - Identification
KW - Plastics recycling
KW - Separation
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U2 - 10.1109/TEPM.2005.862629
DO - 10.1109/TEPM.2005.862629
M3 - Review article
SN - 1521-334X
VL - 29
SP - 25
EP - 31
JO - IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing
JF - IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing
IS - 1
ER -