Objective
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is extensively used for the production of bottles for water and beverages and other edible products.
In this project recovered PET will be modified through blending. The PET blends will be suitable substitutes to virgin HDPE and PVC in the production of containers for lubricants, agrochemicals, liquid detergents etc.
Industry is committed to reclaim 50% of those bottles every year (corresponding to 900.000 tons/year by 1995). The recovered material cannot be used for remaking water and beverage bottles, and the existing recycling outlets cannot absorb such huge quantities of reclaimed PET.
The project will contribute to the:
- relief of solid waste problem
- decrease of plastics consumption
- extension of the limits of extrusion blow moulding technology
- increase of the knowledge on polymer blends.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology other engineering and technologies food technology
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering tribology lubrication
- natural sciences chemical sciences polymer sciences
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