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.
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
Instructor
- 4.2 Instructor Rating
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- 2,994 Students
- 10 Courses
Author of the book Natural polymers, industry technique and Applications, published by Springer (2016).
3+ experience as a University Lecturer in Introduction to Polymer engineering, Food engineering, and other engineering courses such as transport phenomena at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Published research work in the area of polymer processing and application in biomedical, food, and other applications such as the production of polymeric microneedles. Publications available in links provided.
Remote communication, teaching and learning as well as collaborative work has been an integral part of my occupation so I know how to effectively teach and communicate remotely using various digital tools.
Passionate about polymers and their applications in industry and society so this course also provides an avenue to reach more students and teach polymer processing and application in a different way outside the classroom.