The selective recycling of mixed plastic waste of polylactic acid and polyethylene terephthalate by control of process conditions

By Arnaud Sanchez, Simon R. Collinson. 2011

145 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomaterials, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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In Biomaterials

1. I. Jakubowicz
2. Azadeh Soroudi
3. J. D. Badia
4. A. Ribes‐Greus
5. Andreas Kandelbauer
6. G. Lorenz
7. Björn Geyer

In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

1. A. Ribes‐Greus
2. J. D. Badia
3. Andreas Kandelbauer
4. G. Lorenz
5. Björn Geyer

In Pollution

1. A. Ribes‐Greus
2. J. D. Badia
3. I. Jakubowicz
4. Azadeh Soroudi

Citations in the corpus

• Recycling of poly(ethylene terephthalate) – A review focusing on chemical methods (2016, background): “Oligomers [1120 g·mol–1] 20 TEEGj 200–270 8 1q Titanium tetra isopropoxide [193]”
• Recycling of bioplastics, their blends and biocomposites: A review (2013, background): “Furthermore, for alcoholysis of PLA, zinc acetate could yield an effective depolymerisation of waste PLA (in methanol or ethanol) giving lactate esters, whereas PET remained as an unreacted solid under the same reaction conditions.”
• Mechanical recycling of polylactide, upgrading trends and combination of valorization techniques (2016, methodology): “As well, a promising method considering the separation of PLA from PLA/PET wastes by the use of zinc acetate to yield a liquid monomer from which the solid PET can be filtered [108].”