Objective
This proposal has been prepared with the help of an Exploratory Award, which included a Research Feasibility study. Clearly our finite natural resources are dwindling, but perhaps more importantly our ability to sustain landfill occupancy demand throughout the EU is severely restricted due to social, political, legislative and economic factors. The impetus to recycle post-consumer waste plastic is embodied within the European Commission Directive (94/62/EC), but how such material satisfies technical and market demands is unknown. The food and packaging sector is the number one market for plastic products, yet suffers from the demand for virgin material in contact with foodstuffs. The building and construction market is the second largest user of plastic materials, with life cycle utilisation orders of magnitude in excess of the food and packaging sector. Post consumer waste plastic constitutes a variable composition that must be quantified in terms of specification and suitability for end user markets. The aim of this project is to target, identify and establish new and improved methods for recycling and re-use of post-consumer waste plastics as materials for use in the building and construction industry. Risk is commensurate with the socio-economic, technical and market demands and has been well considered. It is justified by the significant potential direct benefits of waste minimisation, reduced raw material costs and new marketing opportunities. There are also indirect benefits in terms of environmental impact (reduced need for landfill), reductions in the use of non-sustainable raw materials and social impact (the ability to construct reduced-cost housing). A return on investment of two years is expected, following implementation of commercial exploitation. Product validation to a wider audience and process development will need to be undertaken by the industrial SME's following completion of this 11/2 year research project, which will require a further period of two years prior to manufacture and subsequent commercial exploitation. The research programme will be directed towards the identification and development of novel means to improve substance compatibilities to enable use of the processed waste in combination with other such materials or feed-stocks, thus permitting their use within products or binder types that could not currently be contemplated. The overriding concern throughout the project will be to fully realise economically attractive product areas for recycling post-consumer waste plastics.
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 environmental engineering waste management waste treatment processes
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DT4 9TH Weymouth
United Kingdom
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