Forecasting waste compositions: A case study on plastic waste of electronic display housings

Because of the rapid succession of technological developments, the architecture and material composition of many products used in daily life have drastically changed over the last decades. As a result, well-adjusted recycling technologies need to be developed and installed to cope with these evoluti...

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Author: Vanegas Pena, Paúl Fernando
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Publication Date:2015
Country:Ecuador
Institution:Universidad de Cuenca
Repository:Repositorio Universidad de Cuenca
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Keyword:Electronic Displays
Forecasting
Plastic Recycling
Waste Electrical Electronic Equipment (Weee)
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spelling Forecasting waste compositions: A case study on plastic waste of electronic display housingsVanegas Pena, Paúl FernandoElectronic DisplaysForecastingPlastic RecyclingWaste Electrical Electronic Equipment (Weee)Because of the rapid succession of technological developments, the architecture and material composition of many products used in daily life have drastically changed over the last decades. As a result, well-adjusted recycling technologies need to be developed and installed to cope with these evolutions. This is essential to guarantee continued access to materials and to reduce the ecological impact of our material consumption. However, limited information is currently available on the material composition of arising waste streams and even less on how these waste streams will evolve. Therefore, this paper presents a methodology to forecast trends in the material composition of waste streams. To demonstrate the applicability and value of the proposed methodology, it is applied to forecast the evolution of plastic housing waste from flat panel display (FPD) TVs, FPD monitors, cathode ray tube (CRT) TVs and CRT monitors. The results of the presented forecasts indicate that a wide variety of plastic types and additives, such as flame retardants, are found in housings of similar products. The presented case study demonstrates that the proposed methodology allows the identification of trends in the evolution of the material composition of waste streams. In addition, it is demonstrated that the recycling sector will need to adapt its processes to deal with the increasing complexity of plastics of end-of-life electronic displays while respecting relevant directives.ELSEVIER LTD2018-01-11T16:47:07Z2018-01-11T16:47:07Z2015-12-01info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdf0956053Xhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84946239333&doi=10.1016%2fj.wasman.2015.09.019&partnerID=40&md5=900973716401b80c7076bd467316fe60http://dspace.ucuenca.edu.ec/handle/123456789/2900610.1016/j.wasman.2015.09.019Waste Managementreponame:Repositorio Universidad de Cuencainstname:Universidad de Cuencainstacron:UCUENCAen_USinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2020-08-01T01:14:21Zoai:dspace.ucuenca.edu.ec:123456789/29006Institucionalhttp://dspace.ucuenca.edu.ec/Universidad públicahttps://www.ucuenca.edu.ec/http://dspace.ucuenca.edu.ec/oai.Ecuador...opendoar:41862020-08-01T01:14:21Repositorio Universidad de Cuenca - Universidad de Cuencafalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Forecasting waste compositions: A case study on plastic waste of electronic display housings
title Forecasting waste compositions: A case study on plastic waste of electronic display housings
spellingShingle Forecasting waste compositions: A case study on plastic waste of electronic display housings
Vanegas Pena, Paúl Fernando
Electronic Displays
Forecasting
Plastic Recycling
Waste Electrical Electronic Equipment (Weee)
title_short Forecasting waste compositions: A case study on plastic waste of electronic display housings
title_full Forecasting waste compositions: A case study on plastic waste of electronic display housings
title_fullStr Forecasting waste compositions: A case study on plastic waste of electronic display housings
title_full_unstemmed Forecasting waste compositions: A case study on plastic waste of electronic display housings
title_sort Forecasting waste compositions: A case study on plastic waste of electronic display housings
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Vanegas Pena, Paúl Fernando
author Vanegas Pena, Paúl Fernando
author_facet Vanegas Pena, Paúl Fernando
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Electronic Displays
Forecasting
Plastic Recycling
Waste Electrical Electronic Equipment (Weee)
topic Electronic Displays
Forecasting
Plastic Recycling
Waste Electrical Electronic Equipment (Weee)
description Because of the rapid succession of technological developments, the architecture and material composition of many products used in daily life have drastically changed over the last decades. As a result, well-adjusted recycling technologies need to be developed and installed to cope with these evolutions. This is essential to guarantee continued access to materials and to reduce the ecological impact of our material consumption. However, limited information is currently available on the material composition of arising waste streams and even less on how these waste streams will evolve. Therefore, this paper presents a methodology to forecast trends in the material composition of waste streams. To demonstrate the applicability and value of the proposed methodology, it is applied to forecast the evolution of plastic housing waste from flat panel display (FPD) TVs, FPD monitors, cathode ray tube (CRT) TVs and CRT monitors. The results of the presented forecasts indicate that a wide variety of plastic types and additives, such as flame retardants, are found in housings of similar products. The presented case study demonstrates that the proposed methodology allows the identification of trends in the evolution of the material composition of waste streams. In addition, it is demonstrated that the recycling sector will need to adapt its processes to deal with the increasing complexity of plastics of end-of-life electronic displays while respecting relevant directives.
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