Download - What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 1/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
Some things becomeso amiliar, we cease tonotice them.
1
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 2/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
Some objects are soeveryday, we think we
know all there is toknow about them.
2
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 3/42
What exactly do weknow about plastics ?
Plastics: overturning received ideas
3
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 4/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
Plastics ineveryday lie
4
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 5/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
Did you know that plastics have helped toreduce the average weight o cars by200kg thereby economising 500 litres o petrolevery 100,000km ?
source: Fédération de la Plasturgie - France
5
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 6/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
How could we organise hygienic wastecollection without plastic bin-bags ?
6
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 7/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
Did you know that plastics make it possibleto store and transport corrosivesubstances saely?
7
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 8/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
Did you know that PVC doors and windowshelp to avoid the chemical treatment owood and the need or painting ?
8
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 9/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
Did you know that plastic gas and water pipes have a guaranteed lie o50 years?
source: Total Petrochemicals
9
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 10/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
Did you know that plastic insulating oamsin a house can save the equivalent o150 litres o heating oil a year ?
source: Fédération de la Plasturgie - France
10
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 11/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
Did you know that plastic toys oer muchgreater saety or children ?
11
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 12/42
Pl ti t i i d id
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 13/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
Did you know that plastics are an integral parto data storage media: vinyl discs, magnetictapes, CDs, DVDs, memory cards, etc ?
13
Pl ti t i i d id
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 14/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
Did you know that theinsides o ridges aremade o polystyreneor ease o cleaning,
hygiene and insulation?
14
Pl ti t i i d id
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 15/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
What are plastics ?
15
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 16/42
99% o all plastics are derived rom crude oil,used to produce dierent monomers that arethen joined together to orm polymers.
Plastics: overturning received ideas
* 1% derived rom agriculture
ABSPolyethylenePolypropylene
PVCPET
Polycarbonate
PMMA Polystyrene
16
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 17/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
Transport &heating
80%
Oils/tars16%
Did you know that only 4% o the totalvolume o crude oil produced is used tomake plastics?
Plastics 4%
source: Plastics Europe
How crude oil is used
17
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 18/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
Did you know that i plastics in packaging were replaced by traditional materials, worldenergy consumption would double?
e = x2source: Plastics Europe / Gesellschaft fûr umfassende Analysen
18
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 19/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
Did you know that i plastics in packaging were replaced by traditional materials, CO
2
emissions would increase 7 times over,adding to the greenhouse eect?
co2 x7source: Plastics Europe / Gesellschaft fûr umfassende Analysen
19
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 20/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 21/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
Plastics are practical !
21
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 22/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
Plastics can be ormed into an innity oshapes, rom the simplest o bottles to themost complex technical components.
22
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 23/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
Plastics are highly durable, weather-resistant and low-maintenance.
23
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 24/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
Plastics possess mechanical properties(elasticity, robustness, etc.) essential or demanding applications.
24
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 25/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
By reducing the weight o packaging, plasticshelp to reduce the number o goodsvehicles on the road.
25
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 26/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
What happens toplastic waste ?
26
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 27/42
Plastics: overturning received ideas
Landfll is not the answer, whatever the natureo the waste concerned.
Chemical
instability
Growing
shortage o
space
Prohibitive costsWaste o
energy
Visual and sensory
pollution
Pollution
o the
water table
27
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 28/42
g
Plastic waste should go either to recycling or to clean waste-to-energy incineration.
28
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 29/42
g
In Europe, almost 20% o plastic wasteis actively recycled.
source: Plastics Europe / images : www.save-a-cup.co.uk
29
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 30/42
g
Did you know that it takes just 35 recycledplastic bottles to produce a polar feece jacket?
1 jacket35 plastic bottles
source: Plastics Europe
30
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 31/42
g
Recycling has its limits: it is not technicallypossible or economically easible torecycle everything.
Diculty o processing(cleaning)
Costs & pollution
associated with
transport o materials
Diculty o
selective waste
collection
High energy costs
31
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 32/42
For non-recyclable waste, clean incineration
is clearly the environment-riendlycomplementary solution.
32
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 33/42
Waste incineration today is one o the
cleanest and most strictly regulated andmonitored industrial activities, producing verysmall quantities o fnal waste.
photo : Solvay
33
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 34/42
Did you know that incineration reduces the
volume o waste by 90%?
source: www.incineration.org
34
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 35/42
Did you know that between
1995 and 2006, dioxinemissions rom incinerators were reduced by 97%?
source: www.incineration.org
35
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 36/42
60 W
Did you know that the electricity generated
by the incineration o just one plastic bagis enough to power a 60-watt light bulb or 10 minutes ?
10 min1 bagsource: Fédération de la Plasturgie - France
36
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 37/42
Did you know that the incineration o
household waste produced by 5 millionParisians generates enough energy toheat 198,000 apartments?
source: Plastics Europe
37
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 38/42
Did you know that the plastics included
in waste enable incinerators to operatewithout uel, and even to generate energy ?
38
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 39/42
Did you know that plastics have an
energy value comparable to that oheating oil, and over double that o paper, wood and coal ?
Energy value (MJ/kg)
Ha Pascs Ca W Pap Ma Avaubawas
50
40
30
20
10
0
-10
source: Plastics Europe
39
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 40/42
In Europe, the countries with the best green
credentials set an example by incineratingup to 75% o their waste.
100 %
90 %
80 %
70 %
60 %
50 %
40 %
30 %
20 %
10 %
0 %
S W i t z e r l A n d
A u S t r i A
d e n M A r k
n e t H e r l A n d S
S W e d e n
n o r W A y
B e l g i u M
g e r M A n y
F r A n C e
S P A i n
i t A l y
F i n l A n d
P o r t u g A l
g B
i r e l A n d e
g r e e C e
lAndFill
inCinerAtion
reCyCling
source: PlasticsEurope
40
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 41/42
The trend is evident: landfll tipping is
increasingly being replaced by 80%incineration, 20% recycling.
100 %
90 %
80 %
70 %
60 %
50 %
40 %
30 %
20 %
10 %
0 %
100 %
90 %
80 %
70 %
60 %
50 %
40 %
30 %
20 %
10 %
0 %
lAndFill reCyCling
1980 2007 2015 ?
100 %
90 %
80 %
70 %
60 %
50 %
40 %
30 %
20 %
10 %
0 %
inCinerAtion
source: Plastics Europe
41
Plastics: overturning received ideas
8/3/2019 What Exactly Do We Know About Plastics
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/what-exactly-do-we-know-about-plastics 42/42
Conclusion : plastics render us countless
everyday services. Just because they are
cheap does not mean we should waste them.
At the end o their useul lie, they should be
recycled or sent or clean waste-to-energy
incineration. Like any other orm o waste, they
should no longer be dumped in landfll sites or carelessly thrown away.
42