Post-consumer plastic packaging waste in England Assessing the yield of multiple collection-recycling schemes

Post-consumer plastic packaging waste in England : Assessing the yield of multiple collection-recycling schemes

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Veröffentlicht in:Waste management (New York, N.Y.). - 1999. - 75(2018) vom: 01. Mai, Seite 149-159
1. Verfasser: Hahladakis, John N (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Purnell, Phil, Iacovidou, Eleni, Velis, Costas A, Atseyinku, Maryann
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2018
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Schlagworte:Journal Article Circular economy Household waste Local authorities Plastic packaging Recycling Waste collection schemes Plastics
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Zusammenfassung:Crown Copyright © 2018. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
The European Commission (EC) recently introduced a 'Circular Economy Package', setting ambitious recycling targets and identifying waste plastics as a priority sector where major improvements are necessary. Here, the authors explain how different collection modalities affect the quantity and quality of recycling, using recent empirical data on household (HH) post-consumer plastic packaging waste (PCPP) collected for recycling in the devolved administration of England over the quarterly period July-September 2014. Three main collection schemes, as currently implemented in England, were taken into account: (i) kerbside collection (KS), (ii) household waste recycling centres (HWRCs) (also known as 'civic amenity sites'), and (iii) bring sites/banks (BSs). The results indicated that: (a) the contribution of KS collection scheme in recovering packaging plastics is higher than HWRCs and BBs, with respective percentages by weight (wt%) 90%, 9% and 1%; (b) alternate weekly collection (AWC) of plastic recyclables in wheeled bins, when collected commingled, demonstrated higher yield in KS collection; (c) only a small percentage (16%) of the total amount of post-consumer plastics collected in the examined period (141 kt) was finally sent to reprocessors (22 kt); (c) nearly a third of Local Authorities (LAs) reported insufficient or poor data; and (d) the most abundant fractions of plastics that finally reached the reprocessors were mixed plastic bottles and mixed plastics
Beschreibung:Date Completed 14.08.2018
Date Revised 02.12.2018
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1879-2456
DOI:10.1016/j.wasman.2018.02.009