Environmental degradation of Air Products` Vinex, Airflex and Airvol polymers through composting
- Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (United States)
With the growing public concern for environmental awareness, it has become increasingly important to market products which are considered environmentally friendly, i.e., non-toxic, recyclable or compostable. This concern, in part, represents a need to reduce waste streams currently entering landfills. Most compost facilities now in operation deal mainly with grass, leaves, yard waste and wastewater treatment plant sludges or other specific industrial waste streams. However, there are a growing number of experimental compost operations that are attempting to integrate a larger variety of waste streams, including plastics, into large scale compost operations. This study marks the first time that a full scale composting study has been used at Air Products to evaluate and demonstrate the degradation of Vinex thermoplastic PVOH resins and Airflex and Airvol emulsion binders. Results here have served to differentiate the Vinex product line for research and development, product application and marketing.
- OSTI ID:
- 250877
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9507204-; TRN: IM9629%%190
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 27. Mid-Atlantic industrial waste conference, Bethlehem, PA (United States), 9-12 Jul 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Hazardous and industrial wastes: Proceedings of the twenty-seventh Mid-Atlantic industrial waste conference; Sengupta, A.K. [ed.] [Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA (United States)]; PB: 973 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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