The recycling of plastics from ELVs -- background, practices and potentials

Advanced Materials Research

Volumn 542-543, Issue , 2012, Pages 271-280

  Gu, Fu ^a   Hall, Philip ^a   Wu, Tao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM NINGBO CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Automobile; Automobile shredded residue; Bumpers; Dashboard; End of Life vehicles; Fuel tanks; Recover; Recycle; Reuse

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE BUMPERS; AUTOMOBILE FUEL TANKS; AUTOMOBILES; ELASTOMERS; FUEL TANKS; PLASTICS; RECYCLING; SCRAP METAL REPROCESSING;

AUTOMOBILE SHREDDED RESIDUE; DASHBOARD; END-OF-LIFE VEHICLES; RECOVER; REUSE;

PLASTIC RECYCLING;

EID: 84868352916     PISSN: 10226680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.542-543.271     Document Type: Conference Paper

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