Dissertation about and made of plastic packaging waste

14 January 2015

PhD candidate Benny Luijsterburg researched how to upgrade waste plastics to a high-grade raw material for new products. To assert his idea, he had 30 copies of his dissertation printed on plastic.
In his dissertation he describes how used plastic packaging can be transformed into a raw material for high grade plastic products. He found that better mixing in an extruder is the remedy for the weakening effect of the polyethylene residue. He also found that drawing is an efficient technique. By stretching the cooled spaghetti from the extruder quite a bit, the spaghetti can become up to 10 times more rigid and 15 times stronger longitudinally (News Item TU Eindhoven, 9 January 2015).
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