In this study, the prefabricated lightweight plastic foundation which was made of recycled plastic for sewage pipeline was developed and PE triple flexible pipe was used to evaluate the fundamental characteristics of foundation for sewage pipeline. Two types of prefabricated plastic foundations were adopted. The basic properties of each plastic material were evaluated, such as density, elastic modulus, unconfined compressive strength, and bending stress. The allowable load at 5% of pipe deformation was 1.49 ton for 100% new plastics foundation, and 1.35 ton for composite plastic foundation. The use of fabricated lightweight plastic foundation shows 100% of higher load support than without foundation.

The development of recycling technology and process of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), also called electronic waste is becoming a growing interest in the world from the perspective of material recovery and resource conservation. In this study we examined the recycling technology levels of WEEE by both group category and recycling process using expert surveys. Based on the results of the expert surveys conducted, the level of large home appliances was found to be approximately 81.1% (± 6.2% std) when compared with that of the advanced countries, while small home appliances and IT equipment and audio/video equipment were 73.5% (± 6.2% std) and 76.2% (± 6.2% std), respectively. In case of recycling pre-treatment process (e.g., disassembly, size reduction, and separation), the technological levels was found to be approximately 82.2%, while the material recovery process followed by the pretreatment process was estimated to be approximately 68.5%. The results of reliability test for the expert survey showed that the values of coefficient of variation (CV) for the pre-treatment process and material recovery process by group category and recycling process are less than 0.5, which is a guidance limit for the coefficient. Based on the statistical tests (ANOVA and t-test), there is no significant difference of the recycling technological levels among the group category (large home appliances, small home appliances, IT equipment, and audio/video equipment. However, the statistical difference between the pre-treatment process and material recovery process within the group category existed (p-value < 0.05) using t-test. In this study, the results imply that there is still a need for developing a variety of more advanced recycling technologies of WEEE to effectively recover valuable metals and materials from it, especially in the fields of metal recovery and extraction processes.

In this study, “Recycling of ladle furnace slag (LFS) in the electric furnace process to produce ultra rapid harding cement” is the target technology. Environmental and economic efficiencies of target technology are analyzed and ecoefficiency is assessed based on these results. The methodologies to analyze environmental and economic efficiencies are LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) and market price which is calculated based on LCC (Life Cycle Costing), respectively. Global warming potential (GWP) and abiotic resource depletion (ARD) are selected as indicator of environmental analysis. The reference flow of this study is considered 1kg of ultra rapid harding cement which made from the LFS. As a result of that, target process has environmental efficiency of 13.1 for global warming and 5.93 for abiotic resource depletion and has economic efficiency of 4.86. Eco-efficiencies are derived from this study can be applied to slag recycling policy formulation and effect analysis in the future. This can be also applied to improve process’s environmental and economic performances.

The build-up plan of network to export domestic recycling technologies to developing countries is suggested in and around the Philippines. In the case of developing countries, human network by governmental and non-governmental organizations could be used because the cooperation between government and industry seems to be insufficient. Because developing countries might need financial support, the support from KOICA, EDCF, WB and ADB is necessary. The network build-up plans to export domestic recycling technologies to developing countries are suggested. For this build-up, the following work should be performed: network build-up among the relative organizations and recycling companies; the request to specialists for data collection and spot survey for inadequate data; seminar opening to understand the on-site technology demand and to intoroduce domestic technologies. The following work should be added: securement of political, administrative and social status materials; financial support form international aid organizations. The expected effects through this process are as follows. The first is to support technology export through human network build-up. The second is to secure the introduction cost of recycling technologies. The third is to secure the waste-relative data and materials.

This paper presents the actual recycling rates and recycling processes of waste plastic recycling facilities using material flow analysis. Determination of actual recycling rates through the processes of waste plastics is a very important subject not only from the point of plastic recycling efficiency energy conversion but also from the perspective of the recycling technology level. In this study, the recycling processes and recycling rates of waste plastic recycling facilities were evaluated by the MFA analysis based on 14 site visits and 25 questionnaires. The MFA methodology based on mass balance approach applied to identify the inputs and outputs of recyclable plastic materials in the recycling processes at recycling facilities. It is necessary to determine the composition and flows of the input materials to be recycled in a recycling facility. A complete understanding of the waste flows in the processes along with the site visit and data surveys for the recycling facilities was required to develop a material flow for the processes and determine the actual recycling rate. The results show that the average actual recycling rates for the recycling facilities by the site visit and the questionnaire was found to be approximately 87.5 ± 7.1% and 84.3 ± 14.5%, respectively. The recycling rates depended upon several factors including the quality of incoming waste plastics, the type and operating conditions of recycling processes, and the type of final products. According to the national statistics, the recycling rate of waste plastics was about 53.7%, while the actual recycling rate at national level was estimated to be approximately 45.1% by considering the recycling performance evaluated as well as the type of recycling process applied. The results of MFA for the recycling processes served as a tool to evaluate the performance of recycling efficiency with regard to the composition of the products during recycling. They may also support the development of the strategy of improvement of recycling processes to maximize resource recovery out of the waste plastic materials.

Photogrammetry technique was applied to estimate the amount of recyclable waste paper from an apartment complex. Photos were taken to calculate pile volume of waste paper, and at the same time the weight of separated recyclable waste paper was measured. Volume of waste paper was calculated by PhotoModeler 2012, which is commercial photogrammetry software. At least three photos were required to calculate the volume of waste paper pile. After 4 times of field measurement and volume calculation, we obtained standard density of recyclable waste paper pile. The weight of waste paper pile was estimated by multiplying the density of waste paper pile by the estimated volume of waste paper pile. As results, the density of recyclable waste paper pile from an apartment complex was 32.6 kg/m3 (standard deviation was 10.1 kg/m3), and 70.2% of man·hour was saved by using photogrammetry technique. The amount of average recyclable waste paper generation from apartment complex was 91.8 g/capita/day, and the standard deviation was 12.4 g/capita/day.

Expanding economic growth, the increased and shortened of electronic products rapidly last a couple of decades in Korea. Furthermore, as converting to digital broadcasting system, the amount of discarded analog type TV containing cathode ray tube(CRT) glasses are increasing significantly. Accordingly, since there is no demand for CRT glass anymore, it is very important to find out how to recycle a waste CRT glass. The research was carried out to investigate the best available technologies for recycling waste CRT glass. Primary feasibility studies to find the appropriate technologies were performed in advance and then the use as aggregates of cement bricks was found as a simple and economic way of recycling CRT panel glass cullet. Based on the selection of proper technology, which is the aggregate of cement bricks fabrication using CRT glass crushed, the evaluation of recyclability were made by replacing CRT glass particles to aggregates in the mixture of cement bricks. Up to 50% of sand or stone powder was replaced and the bricks with CRT glasses were manufactured and tested in their qualities as concrete bricks. The bricks including 20 to 30% of CRT particles instead sand or stone powder were good enough to meet the standard in bending strength and absorption rate.

This research was performed to evaluate the recycling characteristics by physico-chemical analysis of wasted and regenerated activated carbons. Three types of waste carbons for gas treatment, drinking water purification, and wastewater treatment were sampled and analyzed. Heavy metals concentrations of As, Zn, Pb and Cd for all regenerated carbons satisfied the standard criteria of the granular activated carbon for drinking water purification. The sieve residues of the regenerated activated carbons for drinking water purification and wastewater treatment were in the range of 85.3 ~ 97.7% and 97.7 ~ 99.7%, respectively. Some samples of the regenerated activated carbons were not able to satisfy the standard criteria for methylene blue adsorption ( 150 mL/g) and iodine adsorption ( 950 mg/g). All activated carbons for gas treatment and drinking water purification satisfied the standard criteria for hardness and bulk density. One of three activated carbon samples for drinking water purification did not satisfied the standard criteria for phenol number and ABS (alkyl benzene sulfonate) number. The observed results concluded that there was no problem of heavy metals accumulation in the regenerated activated carbon, but partially against standard criteria such as sieve residue, moisture content, methylene blue adsorption, and iodine adsorption.

This research was performed to evaluate the physicochemical characteristics of waste oil, waste solvent, and waste paint as waste derived fuel (WDF) feeding materials and WDF. Low heating values (LHVs) were in the ranges of 8,313.8 ~ 10,989.5 kcal/kg for waste oil, 4,109.1 ~ 9,890.6 kcal/kg for waste solvent, 5,733.7 ~ 8,051.0 kcal/kg for waste paint, and 5,184.2 ~ 10,679.0 kcal/kg for WDF. Sulfur contents showed 0.010 ~ 1.900% for waste oil, 0.000 ~ 0.073% for waste solvent, 0.004 ~ 0.581% for waste paint, and 0.001 ~ 0.700%, respectively. Chloride contents showed the ranges of 2 ~ 4,870 mg/kg for waste oil, 0 ~ 12,900 mg/kg for waste solvent, 0 ~ 10,700 mg/kg for waste paint, and 'not detected' ~ 4,070 mg/kg for WDF. Cd, As, and Hg were detected minimally in a few sample only. Other heavy metals showed below standard permission value for WDF. Feeding materials for WDF showed greatly different characteristics within even same sorts of wastes. And, as results of LHV, S, Cl, and heavy metal contents, WDF samples investigated in this research satisfied the standard permission value for WDF.

The proper disposal of digestate from biogas plants has been focused while the use of biogas plants to treat organic waste has been considered as a way of green energy production. This study analyzed chemical and biological characteristics of two types of digestates from 6 domestic biogas plants for low cost and environmental recycling. The results showed that separated solids met current standard for compost within organic content, ratio of organic matter and NaCl concentration, although water content and maturity of separated solids did not meet the standard. Total content of N, P2O5 and K2O in separated liquids met current standard for liquefied fertilizer except that in separated liquids from sewage sludge, although NaCl content of separated liquids from food waste exceed the standard. Heavy metal content, coliform count and 2 kinds of harmful microorganisms were also detected below domestic standard for compost and liquefied fertilizer. These results suggested that digestates from biogas plants could be recycled to be fertilizer with additional treatment such as post-composting or salinity removal process.