Recyclability of glass reinforced flame retardant impact polystyrene

Author

Song, Jim ; Suek, Larry ; Moran, Michelle L.

Author_Institution

BASF Corp., Parsippany, NJ, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

1-3 May 1995

Firstpage

138

Lastpage

144

Abstract

Glass reinforced flame retardant impact polystyrene has successfully been used in many demanding electronics/electrical enclosure applications. However, disposing of used equipment parts is no longer a popular or viable option because of environmental consciousness. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) must find acceptable ways of recovering used parts or reusing or recycling them. Recycling glass-reinforced material is especially challenging because a recycling process, which usually involves injection molding and recycling, would introduce substantial glass fiber breakage, resulting in significant physical property loss of material

Keywords

environmental factors; glass fibre reinforced plastics; plastic packaging; recycling; electrical enclosure applications; environmental consciousness; flame retardant impact polystyrene; glass fiber breakage; glass-reinforced material; original equipment manufacturers; physical property loss; recycling; used equipment parts; Conducting materials; Flame retardants; Glass; Injection molding; Materials testing; Optical fiber devices; Plastics; Recycling; Resins; Societies;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics and the Environment, 1995. ISEE., Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2137-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISEE.1995.514965

Filename

514965