Review of Related Studies

Awasthi, A. et al. (2017) Plastics are used in more number of

applications in worldwide and it becomes an essential part of our

daily life. In cities and villages, people use the plastics in buying

vegetables as a carry bag, drinking water bottle, use of plastic

furniture in home, plastic objects in the kitchen, plastic drums in

packing and storage of the different chemicals for industrial use, use

of plastic utensils in home and many more uses. After usage of

plastics it will become part of waste garbage and create pollution due

to presence of toxic chemicals and it will spread diseases and give

birth to uncontrolled issues in social society. In the current

scenario, consumption of plastic waste increasing day by day and it is

very difficult to manage the plastic waste. Such examples are

recycling, landfill, incineration, gasification, and hydrogenation.

Grigore, M. (2017) Thermoplastic polymers are inexpensive,

lightweight and durable which make them suitable to be molded into a

variety of products that can find use in a wide range of applications.

In the last 60 years, the production of plastics has increased

significantly causing a big problem in the world. This review aims to

provide an updated survey of the main recycled polymers and the

recycle methods of thermoplastic polymers. Also, the main applications

of thermoplastic polymers based on categorization by the Society of

the Plastic Industry (SPI) and the new perspectives with reference to

these polymers are presented. This study reveals that the recycling

process is the best technique to treat waste polymer products in

comparison with the old-style methods (combustion of waste polymers or

burying underground) which lead to negative influences on the

environment via the formation of dust, fumes and toxic gases.

Hopewell, J. (2009) Plastics are inexpensive, lightweight and

durable materials, which can readily be moulded into a variety of

products that find use in a wide range of applications. As a

consequence, the production of plastics has increased markedly over

the last 60 years. However, current levels of their usage and disposal

generate several environmental problems. Recycling is one of the most

important actions currently available to reduce these impacts and

represents one of the most dynamic areas in the plastics industry

today. Recycling provides opportunities to reduce oil usage, carbon

dioxide emissions and the quantities of waste requiring disposal.

Review of Related Literature

Alama, R. (2018) Engineer Winchester Lemen and his company,

Winder Recycling Company with its plant in Sasa processes around 90

tons of plastic trash and transforms them using Lemen’s invention- a

thermal heating technology into school chairs, benches, picnic tables

and lounge chairs. Lemen said the business started in 2001 where he

saw the need to recycle plastics and invented a technology to help in

recycling. “This invention is a product of Philippine ingenuity, I

conceptualized it to start reducing the number of plastic wastes in

our country. This was my idea to help the country,” Lemen said. A

single school chair is made up of 30 kilos of plastic or the

equivalent of 10,000 candy wrappers or equal to 2,181 sando bags or

300 bottles of mineral water, these are common plastic wastes being

dumped in landfills or in canals and waterways. “We are also saving a

three-year old tree from being cut which could have been used to

create a chair,” Lemen said. A native of Marikina, Lemen moved to

Davao when he married a Dabawenya. He set up the Envirotech Waste

Reycling Inc. Together with a partner, he put up the Winder Recycling

Inc. with a 4,000 square meter factory in Sasa near the Port of Davao.

The wastes come from Davao City and nearby towns like in Tagum, Padada

and Sulop. Winder together with Junior Chamber International (JCI)

Davaoeña Dabadaba chapter is conducting a plastic wastes drive where

they aim to gather collected plastic wastes such as sando bags,

plastic containers, bottles, sachets, wrappers and food packaging.

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RRS:

Arun Kumar Awasthi, et al. (2017)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321486836_Plastic_solid_waste_utilization_technologies_A_
Review?fbclid=IwAR2cSZ51m6e-IMKqJAR3mbBGX0BO0pZTQyfp4uA4a7JMOWBRrulRuBuXqfI
Mădălina Elena Grigore (2017)
file:///D:/Download/recycling-02-00024.pdf
Hopewell, J. (2009)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2873020/

RRL:
Alama, R. (2018)
https://pia.gov.ph/features/articles/1016192