Spotlight on a student project: recycling polymers

Through chemical analysis and laboratory experiments, they studied the composition, transformation and reuse potential of different plastics.

The aim?

Optimize recycling processes to reduce environmental impact and study the properties of recycled plastics.

The equipment they used included:

• Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), a thermal analysis technique.
• The infrared spectroscopy, a chemical identification method.
• The tensile machine (photo) to perform etests mechanical standardization on recycled polymer samples.