State-of-the-art technologies for EoL composites treatment
State-of-the-art technologies for EoL composites treatment
As any other source of waste, the waste hierarchy expressed in [1] can be applied also to composite products.
Therefore, best-practices as material reuse or recycling are always preferred to incineration for energy recovery or landfilling. Nevertheless, such virtuous practices are not yet established in Europe (and worldwide) because of inadequate technological readiness of recycling and restoration technologies; low maturity of circular economy ecosystems and value chains; poor or null profitability.
This lesson is dedicated to present the state-of-the art recycling and repurposing technologies appliable to composites at different technology readiness level.
Figure 1: waste hierarchy, [1]Read the full text “State-of-the-art technologies for EoL composites treatment” to explore more about this topic.