In this paper we evaluate the real costs for the use of plastics regarding costs for disposal. These costs are until now not sufficiently reflected in the consumer prices. This causes massive competitive disadvantages for renewable raw materials, even though these are produced with significantly lower energy consumption and disposal costs. Plastics waste has no recycling potential and should be regarded as waste for disposal.
Keywords:
Plastics, Recycling, Disposal, System costs, Antimony
1 Introduction
2 Production of Plastics
3 Costs of raw plastics production
4 Replacement of renewable resources by plastics
5 Disposal of plastic waste
5.1 Energy Recovery of Plastic Waste
5.1.1 Cadmium pollution
5.1.2 Antimony pollution
5.1.3 Lead Pollution
5.1.4 Mercury pollution
5.1.5 Chlorine pollution
5.2 Raw material recycling
5.3 Material recycling
5.4 Society Landfill
5.5 Thermal Disposal by Waste Incineration
5.6 Landfill
5.7 Export for pseudo recycling
6 Conclusion
Copyright: | © Wasteconsult International |
Quelle: | Waste-to-Resources 2009 (Mai 2009) |
Seiten: | 13 |
Preis: | € 0,00 |
Autor: | Dipl.-Ing. Reinhard Schu Dipl.-Ing. Jens Niestroj Dipl.-Biol. Kirsten Schu |
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