Saturday, 16 July 2005: 1:30 PM-2:30 PM | |||
UC Commons (Sacred Heart University) | |||
From Garbage to Stuff: How We Recycle Plastics | |||
| Is that recycling bin the springboard to giving material a new life or is it simply a blue wastebasket? What about surplus materials from industrial processes? Do they find their way out the back door to the landfill? This presentation discusses the four critical steps in recycling-- collection, separation, reprocessing and remanufacture-and how they relate to plastics. The technology, the cost and the efficacy of the processes all matter. And the operative word, plastics, really is plural. Presentation includes a primer in the basic kinds of plastics, how they differ and how they're used in common articles, especially packaging. The presenter brings a few common articles for demonstrations, and promises not to recycle an old quote from The Graduate. | |||
| Organizer: | William F. Carroll Jr. | ||
| 1:30 PM | 158 | From Garbage to “Stuff”: How We Recycle Plastics William F. Carroll Jr. | |
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