InnoNet News Nr. 18, June 2006 edition, page 2 

Success through Cost Control
Environmentally-friendly recycling process enables recovery of Styropor^®

Frost & Sullivan Research Service - published: 24 Mar 2006

Advances in Electronic Waste Recovery
(Technical Insights)

In Europe, the Creasolv^® solvent removal technology shows great promise in dissolving the brominated flame retardants from WEEE and separating them for use in the bromine industry. In this way, the final plastic stream obtained contains less than 0.1 percent flame-retardant content in adherence to the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive and is fit for reuse in the electronics manufacturing industry.

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Waste Management & Research, Vol. 24, No. 6, 573-583 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/073424X06068520

Recycling of flame-retarded plastics from waste electric and electronic equipment (WEEE)
Martin Schlummer, Andreas Mäurer, Thomas Leitner and Walter Spruzina 

Shredder residues produced in plants processing waste electric and electronic equipment are excluded from material recycling due to a variety of polymeric materials and the presence of brominated flame retardants (BFR), which might contain banned polybrominated diphenyl ethers or toxic polybrominated dioxins and furans   (PBDD/F). Herein we present a technological approach to transfer a significant portion of the shredder residue into recycled polymers. The technological approach   consists of a density-based enrichment of styrenics, which are subjected to a solvolysis process (CreaSolv^® process) in a second stage.

Conference:
FAKUMA Forum 2005 on 20 October 2005 in Friedrichshafen, Germany
Subject:
EPS-Loop
Recycling of EPS-waste to expandable polystyrene
Speakers:
Dr. Andreas Mäurer and Dr.-Ing. Udo Knauf
Fraunhofer-Institut für Verfahrenstechnik und Verpackung, Freising

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Recycling von EPS-Abfall zu re-expandierbarem Polystyrol (EPS-Loop)

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