Plastic Recycling: A Beginner Course

Basic principles, process description and practical demonstration.

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.

Overview

Section 1: Section 1- Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Course Objectives

Lecture 3 What are Plastics?

Lecture 4 Types of Plastics

Section 2: Section 3: Plastic recycling process and practical demonstration

Lecture 5 Process outline, collection and sorting

Lecture 6 Further Sorting

Lecture 7 Size reduction

Lecture 8 Moulding

Lecture 9 Practical demonstration

Lecture 10 Further Considerations

Section 3: Section 2: Global plastic Challenge

Lecture 11 Global Plastic challenge

Lecture 12 The plastic cycle

Lecture 13 Large Scale and small scale recycling

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