Plastic Recycling: A Beginner Course

What you'll learn
How to identify the common types of plastics
The global plastic challenge and impact
The recycling process and mechanisms
Practical demonstration of a bench scale recycling process
Advantages and challenges of large scale and small scale recycling
Requirements
Basic polymer chemistry is helpful but not required
Description
Plastics have become a very important part of modern living. They are used today in almost every part of life. At the same time they currently pose a challenge to the environment and resources.Plastic recycling is one of the approaches towards addressing these challenges.To this end, this course covers the topic of plastic recycling with the aim of equipping participants with a fundamental knowledge of how this is done. The course begins with an overview of the global plastic challenge and then goes on to explaining the the processes involved and the mechanisms behind some of these processes. Finally a simple bench scale recycling process is included for the purpose of demonstration.
Overview
Section 1: Section 1- Introduction
Lecture 1 Introduction
Lecture 2 Course Objectives
Lecture 3 What are Plastics?
Lecture 4 Types of Plastics
Section 2: Section 3: Plastic recycling process and practical demonstration
Lecture 5 Process outline, collection and sorting
Lecture 6 Further Sorting
Lecture 7 Size reduction
Lecture 8 Moulding
Lecture 9 Practical demonstration
Lecture 10 Further Considerations
Section 3: Section 2: Global plastic Challenge
Lecture 11 Global Plastic challenge
Lecture 12 The plastic cycle
Lecture 13 Large Scale and small scale recycling
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