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Viable plastics recycling from end-of-life electronics
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Viable plastics recycling from end-of-life electronics

Xiuli Qu, Julie Ann Stuart Williams and Edward R. Grant
IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing, Vol.29, pp.25-31
29
2006
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TEPM.2005.862629
Web of Science ID: WOS:000235155100004

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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.

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