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Plastic Recycling: A Beginner Course
Rating: 4.3 out of 5(177 ratings)
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Plastic Recycling: A Beginner Course

Basic principles, process description and practical demonstration.
Created byOlolade Olatunji
Last updated 8/2020
English
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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

Course content

3 sections • 13 lectures • 1h 32m total length

  • Introduction1:02

    Learn about the global plastics challenge, the recycling processes, and the mechanisms behind them, along with a demonstration of a simple bane scale recycling process.

  • Course Objectives0:47

    Identify plastics and their common types; understand the global plastic challenge, its everyday impact, the advantages and challenges of large-scale and small-scale recycling, and the recycling process with a demonstration.

  • What are Plastics?5:41

    Describe plastics as polymers with limited elasticity, rigid at room temperature, and highlight chemical resistance, lightweight, easy melting, electrical insulation, water-repellency, used in bottles, containers, and tools.

  • Practice questions
  • Types of Plastics13:55

    Explore the seven types of plastics, learn how to identify them by recycle numbers, and understand how melting points and properties affect recycling processes.

  • Practice question

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.


Who this course is for:

  • Industry professionals and entrepreneurs looking to venture into plastics recycling
  • Policy makers seeking to improve their understanding of plastic recycling
  • Students at all levels
  • Plastic consumers seeking to understand the process of recycling and the global impact

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