TY - GEN A1 - Schlummer, Martin A1 - Arends, Dagmar A1 - Mäurer, Andreas A1 - Markowski, Jens A1 - Wagenknecht, Udo T1 - Characterisation and materials flow management for waste electrical and electronic equipment plastics from German dismantling centres T2 - Waste Management & Research N2 - Waste electrical and electronic equipment is a complex waste stream and treatment options that work for one waste category or product may not be appropriate for others. A comprehensive case study has been performed for plastic-rich fractions that are treated in German dismantling centres. Plastics from TVs, monitors and printers and small household appliances have been characterised extensively. Based on the characterisation results, state-of-the-art treatment technologies have been combined to design an optimised recycling and upgrade process for each input fraction. High-impact polystyrene from TV casings that complies with the European directive on the restriction of hazardous substances (RoHS) was produced by applying continuous density separation with yields of about 60%. Valuable acrylonitrile butadiene styrene/ polycarbonate can be extracted from monitor and printer casings by near- infrared-based sorting. Polyolefins and/or a halogen-free fraction of mixed styrenics can be sorted out by density separation from monitors and printers and small household appliances. Emerging separation technologies are discussed to improve recycling results. KW - Waste electrical and electronic equipment plastics KW - recycling, separation KW - characterisation, near-infrared Y1 - 2015 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-UBICO/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14447 SN - 1096-3669 VL - 33 IS - 9 SP - 775 EP - 784 ER -