Economic analysis of electronics waste materials: A region based study

Arya, Somvir; Gupta, Ajay; Bhardwaj, Arvind

doi:10.1016/j.matpr.2020.11.750

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“…For example, the widely used burning process produces deadly dioxins that could cause cancer as well as harm to the nervous system. [ 2,3 ] In particular, rigid cross‐linked interpenetrated network PVC foams are widely used as light core for composite sandwiches used in several applications from wind blades to marine structures. When the end of life of these artifacts is reached, the PVC foams are currently disposed in landfills with the related impacts in terms of wasted resources and environmental burden.…”

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Effective recycling of end‐of‐life polyvinyl chloride foams in ethylene–propylene diene monomers rubber

Mahmood

Nart²,

Pegoretti

2022

Vinyl Additive Technology

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Rigid cross-linked interpenetrated network polyvinyl chloride (PVC) foams are widely used as core materials in the composite industry. Nevertheless, no recycling methods exist today for these materials that are currently landfilled at the end of life (EoL). In this work, various amounts of EoL PVC cross-linked foams in the form of chips were mixed with ethylene-propylene diene monomer (EPDM) rubber and carbon black (CB) at 60 C for 15 min. The obtained rubber mixtures were vulcanized at 160 C for 20 min to create compacted square sheets of EPDM-CB-PVC composites using compression molding technique. Tensile tests revealed a progressive increase in modulus of EPDM-CB with increasing PVC content while a subsequent decrease of the elongation-atbreak values of the composites was noticed. Scanning electron microscopy revealed a homogeneous dispersion of PVC particles with the EPDM-CB matrix.

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confidence: 99%