Recycle and Reuse of plastics and their environmental impact: NU.MA 4.0 project

This project aims at evaluating the environmental impact related with industrial product manufactured via recycled plastics. The use of such materials should be proven in terms of chemical and mechanical properties of the novel material used in the production. This allows a small/negligible use of the raw materials at the end of the cycle. Most of the considered recycled plastics are polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) which mostly come from the everyday use of plastics in our modern society. Such materials are collected via milling of production of industrial artefacts or from third parties who need to get rid of such waste which can be reused. Comparisons and analysis are performed in terms of chemical analysis such as melt-flow tests as well as mechanical testing and numerical simulations of the specimens for future industrial applications and verification.