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
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
Course content
- Preview01:02
- Preview00:47
- 05:41What are Plastics?
- 4 questionsPractice questions
- 13:55Types of Plastics
- 5 questionsPractice question
Instructor
![Ololade Olatunji](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 308 Reviews
- 1,034 Students
- 5 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 and Polymer processing as well as other engineering courses such as transport phenomena at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Published research work in area of polymer processing and application in biomedical applications. 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 so this course also provides an avenue to reach more students and teach polymer processing and application in a different way outside the classroom.