Recycled materials for construction applications

Authors: Luís Eduardo Pimentel Real

Recycled materials for construction applications presents state of the art research on the recycling of plastic building materials.

It discusses the environmental and sustainability implications of plastic recycling for construction.

Recycled materials for construction applications makes recommendations to optimize the success of plastic recycling.

Recycled materials for construction applications presents the state of the art on the topic of recycling of plastic building materials, comprising a synthetic market analysis, and presenting the latest developments in plastic recycling technologies.

The book also makes recommendations to optimize the success of recycling and encourage the circular economy, while acknowledging the environmental and sustainability implications of plastic recycling for building construction.

The distinctive features of this book are the variety of topics covered on sustainable plastic recycling, the discussion of advances in plastic recycling technology, detailed illustrations, and summarized descriptions of separation processes.

This book is a guide for both technical and non-technical readers, and for anyone involved in plastic waste or recycling, including researchers and students in plastics engineering, polymer science, polymer chemistry, environmental science, and sustainable materials.

In this work, a general approach to the recyclability of plastics and composites used in construction, with the purpose of their reuse, is provided.

The various recycling technologies applicable to plastic materials, most used in civil construction, are described, indicating the difficulties inherent to these processes for the main polymers. In this context, several illustrative cases of success and examples of recent technological innovation are presented.