Technical specifications for mechanical recycling of agricultural plastic waste

Waste Management

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1516-1530

  Briassoulis, D ^a   Hiskakis, M ^a   Babou, E ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Agricultural plastic waste; Mechanical recycling; Recycling quality of plastic waste; Recycling technical specifications

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PLASTICS; INHERENT CHARACTERISTICS; MECHANICAL RECYCLING; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PLASTIC WASTES; PRODUCTION PROCESS; RECYCLING POTENTIAL; TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS;

COMMERCE; CULTIVATION; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; RECYCLING;

SPECIFICATIONS;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; OIL; PLASTIC; POLYETHYLENE;

AGRICULTURE; PLASTIC WASTE; RECYCLING; STANDARD (REGULATION); WASTE MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURAL WASTE; ARTICLE; COLOR; DANGEROUS GOODS; DEGRADATION; EUROPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; THICKNESS; WASTE DISPOSAL;

AGRICULTURE; EUROPE; HAZARDOUS WASTE; PLASTICS; POLYETHYLENE; RECYCLING; REFUSE DISPOSAL;

EUROPE;

EID: 84881249729     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2013.03.004     Document Type: Article

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