Twenty years of PET bottle to bottle recycling—an overview
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Recycling PET consumes a higher amount of energy due to its resistance to high temperature and relatively high inertness.
“For example, recycling PET consumes a higher amount of energy due to its resistance to high temperature and the relatively high inertness (Welle, 2011).”
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- Authors
- Welle, F.
- Affiliations
- Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Welle, Frank
- ORCID
- Welle, Frank
- Venue
- Resources, Conservation and Recycling
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-09
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 865-875
- ISSN
- 0921-3449 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2035916925
- Cited by
- 643
- References
- 14
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 36.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Resources Conservation and Recycling (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Waste Management and Recycling
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Polymers and Plastics › Polymer crystallization and properties
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Keywords
- polyethylene terephthalate, post-consumer PET, beverage bottles, polymer contamination, decontamination efficiency, packaging waste
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