Mechanical and chemical recycling of solid plastic waste.

By K. Ragaert, Laurens Delva, K. V. Van Geem. Waste Management, 2017

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Engineering Properties of Concrete with Waste Recycled Plastic: A Review (2018, background): “A major challenge with plastic waste is that it may consist of mixed organic (food remains) and inorganic (attached paper level) fractions, which makes it a complex stream to recycle [6].”
Techno‐economic assessment and comparison of different plastic recycling pathways: A German case study (2021, neutral): “But,mechan-icalrecyclingonlycanhardlyfulfiltheimposedrecyclingratesduetotechnicalrestrictionsandeconomiclimitations(Pivnenkoetal.,2015;Ragaert et al., 2017).”
Techno-economic assessment of mechanical recycling of challenging post-consumer plastic packaging waste (2021, background): “This may cause the degradation of the component with lowest melting point reducing the quality of the recycled product (Ragaert et al., 2017).”