Milan, creativity and design
For me, above all, Milan is the city of plastic recycling. This is the subject that Philips Consumer Electronics worked on for many years in the nineties. Our work produced a set of requirements for the reuse of recycled High Impact Polystyrene (HIPS) in large quantities (up to 50% of total weight), for instance in housings for TV sets. Unfortunately, recyclers at that time could not deliver the quantity nor the quality we required, so the company had to turn to the big plastic producers themselves. All of them listened politely and finally asked, how many tons do you already buy from us? Large amounts for us, but relatively little compared to others. Big Philips turned out to be a peanut in the plastic value chain. It was not even necessary to say publicly that the materials industry of this kind prefers to sell new plastic rather than to supply for recycled plastic as well. This viewpoint is implied in a lot of the plastics industry arguments in favor of incineration but as a dwarf Philips could easily be denied.
国际会议
The 4th International Conference on Waste Management and Technology(第四届固体废物管理与技术国际会议)
北京
英文
370
2009-11-28（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）