Tackling the circular economy challenges-composites recycling: used tyres, wind turbine blades, and solar panels
Authors:
- Kinga Korniejenko,
- Barbara Kozub,
- Agnieszka Bąk,
- Ponnambalam Balamurugan,
- Marimuthu Uthayakumar,
- Gabriel Furtos
Abstract
Transformation of waste into resources is an important part of the circular economy. Nowadays, the recovery of materials in the most effective way is crucial for sustainable development. Composite materials offer great opportunities for product development and high performance in use, but their position in a circular economy system remains challenging, especially in terms of material recovery. Currently, the methods applied for recycling composites are not always effective. The aim of the article is to analyse the most important methods of material recovery from multilateral composites. The manuscript presents three case studies related to the recycling of products manufactured from composites: used tyres, wind turbine blades, and solar panels. It shows the advantages and disadvantages of currently applied methods for multilateral composite utilisation and presents further trends in composite recycling. The results show that increasing volumes of end-of-life composites have led to increased attention from government, industry, and academia.
- Record ID
- CUTddc5708722ac44d7a06c60c2c0abbc67
- Publication categories
- ;
- Author
- Journal series
- Journal of Composites Science, ISSN , e-ISSN 2504-477X, Monthly
- Issue year
- 2021
- Vol
- 5
- No
- 9
- Pages
- [1-18]
- Article number
- 243
- Other elements of collation
- rys.; tab.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 14-18; Bibliografia (liczba pozycji) - 110; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 5, Iss. 9, Spec. Iss.
- Substantive notes
- Tyt. Spec. Iss.: Progress in Green Composites
- Keywords in English
- circular economy, composite recycling, multilateral composite, used tyre, wind turbine blade, solar panel
- DOI
- DOI:10.3390/jcs5090243 Opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://www.mdpi.com/2504-477X/5/9/243 Opening in a new tab
- Related project
- E-mobilność oraz zrównoważone materiały i technologie. . Project leader at PK: , ,
- Language
- eng (en) English
- License
- Score (nominal)
- 20
- Publication indicators
- = 36
- Additional fields
- Indeksowana w: Web of Science, Scopus
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUTddc5708722ac44d7a06c60c2c0abbc67/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUTddc5708722ac44d7a06c60c2c0abbc67
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