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- Title
Environmental and Economic Benefits of Recycling PET Bottles.
- Authors
ARABACI, Havva; ÖZKAN, Nurcan
- Abstract
Plastic is obtained from petroleum, the most important natural resource in the world. Most of the time it is used in the form of packaging, then it becomes garbage and remains as garbage forever. When plastics are treated with heat, they are considered in two groups as non-melting plastics (thermoset) and meltable plastics (thermoplastic). Thermoset plastics exist as solids at any temperature. Used thermoplastics are recycled under the influence of heat and pressure and used in the production phase. Increasing developments in the recycling technology of plastics have created a new raw material source for the textile industry due to price and ecological advantages. The most common types of plastic bottles used in daily life are Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) and Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC). Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) polymer is the most consumed polymer in the textile sector. PET bottles can find more usage areas after transformation. The most suitable material for recycling is PET polymers obtained from PET bottles. PET polymers; PET packaging, which is generally used in the marketing of liquid foods such as water, soft drinks, oil, can be converted into PET shavings (burr, flake) in recycling facilities. PET shavings were also mostly used for fiber production. Materials such as carpet floors, sleeping bags, pillows, duvets, insulators in clothing, auto parts, paint brushes, life-pads, bags, mailboxes, picnic tables, fences, hiking boots, doublecompartment buckets, laser toner cartridges and belts are produced from the recycling of PETs. This provides environmental and economic benefits. In our country, solid wastes mainly constitute packaging wastes and it is observed that fiber production from PET shavings is increasing. This study was conducted to explain the environmental and economic benefits of recycling PET bottles.
- Subjects
BEVERAGE container recycling; PACKAGING waste; PLASTIC recycling; POLYETHYLENE terephthalate; NATURAL resources
- Publication
Balkan & Near Eastern Journal of Social Sciences (BNEJSS), 2023, Vol 9, Issue 1, p119
- ISSN
2149-9314
- Publication type
Article