TY - GEN
T1 - Places and causes of mismanaged plastic materials in the life cycle of flexible plastic packaging based on mechanical recycling context
AU - Hadengganan, Munzir
AU - Gabriel, Djoko Sihono
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Trans Tech Publications Ltd, Switzerland.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Plastic waste has become a big issue in the world for its large amount of plastic waste in the sea. Most of the plastic waste is plastic packaging which consists of flexible and rigid plastic packaging. This research discusses flexible plastic packaging. Until now, most researches on the loss of plastic materials discuss how to manage plastic waste disposal once it has been used by community: only a few discuss production cycle: while none of them discusses flexible plastic packaging area. This research aims to examine the number of mismanaged materials throughout flexible plastic packaging life cycle using a combination of Material Flow Analysis (MFA) and Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). Based on the literature review, interviews and observations conducted by the author to all stakeholders in the life cycle of flexible plastic packaging, mismanagement of plastic material occurred in each cycle, mostly caused by quality degradation of flexible plastic that could cause plastic waste was not acceptable in the mechanical recycle. The results of this study show that: (1) mismanaged material occurred in all cycles throughout the life cycles of flexible plastic packaging, (2) quality degradation is the main caused of mismanaged material in several cycles, and (3) the mismanaged materials in the life cycle of flexible plastic packaging were 98.29%.
AB - Plastic waste has become a big issue in the world for its large amount of plastic waste in the sea. Most of the plastic waste is plastic packaging which consists of flexible and rigid plastic packaging. This research discusses flexible plastic packaging. Until now, most researches on the loss of plastic materials discuss how to manage plastic waste disposal once it has been used by community: only a few discuss production cycle: while none of them discusses flexible plastic packaging area. This research aims to examine the number of mismanaged materials throughout flexible plastic packaging life cycle using a combination of Material Flow Analysis (MFA) and Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). Based on the literature review, interviews and observations conducted by the author to all stakeholders in the life cycle of flexible plastic packaging, mismanagement of plastic material occurred in each cycle, mostly caused by quality degradation of flexible plastic that could cause plastic waste was not acceptable in the mechanical recycle. The results of this study show that: (1) mismanaged material occurred in all cycles throughout the life cycles of flexible plastic packaging, (2) quality degradation is the main caused of mismanaged material in several cycles, and (3) the mismanaged materials in the life cycle of flexible plastic packaging were 98.29%.
KW - Flexible plastic packaging
KW - Material value conservation
KW - Mismanaged plastic material
KW - Waste management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85120532067&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.888.129
DO - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.888.129
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85120532067
SN - 9783035718294
T3 - Key Engineering Materials
SP - 129
EP - 138
BT - Polymer Science and Engineering II
A2 - Kida, Katsuyuki
PB - Trans Tech Publications Ltd
T2 - 4th International Conference on Composite Material, Polymer Science and Engineering, CMPSE 2020
Y2 - 6 December 2020 through 7 December 2020
ER -