Review of Recycling of the Plastic Waste

Abstracts Large scale generation of plastic waste has generated considerable interest it seeking innovative solutions to waste recyclingand reuse. Plastic solid waste(PSW) treatment and recycling processes could be allocated to four major categories, re-extrusion(primary), mechanical recycling(secondary), chemical recycling(tertiary) and energy recovery(quaternary). This reviewconsiders the various aspects of the PSW recycling such as recycling methods of PSW, special problems about someproposed process, separation techniques, and recycling of mixed PSW. Key words : Plastic solid waste, Polyvinyl chloride, Depolymerization, Pyrolysis, Landfill, Gasification 1. 서 론 플라스틱은 풍화에 강하고 가벼우며, 다양한 1)색상으로착색이 가능하고 성형가공도 매우 용이하다. 또한 전기 절연성이 좋고 내산성과 내 알칼리성 등 내 부식성 기능도있어서 다양한 분야에서 다양한 용도로 활용되고 있다 . · Received : December 26, 2013 · 1st Revised : February 12, 2014 · 2nd Revised : April 22, 2014 · 3rd Revised : June 23, 2014 · Accepted : July 9, 2014Corresponding Author : Hee-Duck Shin (E-mail : hdshin5742@reseat.re.kr)Research Fellow Department, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, 66, Hoegi-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul130-741, KoreaTel : +82-2-3299-6231 / Fax : +82-2-3299-6234ⓒThe Korean Institute of Resources Recycling. All rights reserved. This is an open-access article distributed under the termsof the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permitsunrestricted non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.