Recycling of Aromatic Polyester Waste by Melt Processing

Proceedings of the 8th Central European Conference "Plastics Recycling and Recovery. Science-Industry" 2009
Juris Bitenieks, Madara Bārtule, Remo Merijs-Meri, Valdis Kaļķis, Jānis Zicāns, Mārtiņš Kalniņš

Aromatic polyester waste makes considerable part of synthetic plastic waste stream. Consequently approaches for managing of different forms of this kind of waste should be introduced. Recycling of metallized poly(ethylene terephtalate) (mPET) film waste by melt processing is demonstrated here. The effect of the elastomer modifier on the calorimetric, dynamic and mechanical properties of mPET is demonstrated.

Keywords
polymer waste, polyethylene terephtalate, recycling

Bitenieks, J., Bārtule, M., Merijs-Meri, R., Kaļķis, V., Zicāns, J., Kalniņš, M. Recycling of Aromatic Polyester Waste by Melt Processing. In: Proceedings of the 8th Central European Conference "Plastics Recycling and Recovery. Science-Industry", Poland, Ustrona, 4-6 November, 2009. Ustrona: West Pomeranian University of Technology, 2009, pp.177-178.

Publication language
English (en)