Recycled electrical products lead to hazardous chemicals appearing in everyday items

Recycled electrical products lead to hazardous chemicals appearing in everyday items

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https://phys.org/news/2018-05-recycled-electrical-products-hazardous-chemicals.html

Now scientists at the University of Plymouth have shown that a combination of the growing demand for black plastic and the inefficient sorting of end-of-life electrical equipment is causing contaminated material to be introduced into the recyclate.

This is in part because despite black plastics constituting about 15% of the domestic waste stream, this waste material is not readily recycled owing to the low sensitivity of black pigments to near infrared radiation used in conventional plastic sorting facilities.

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