Abstract The ambition to extend material recycling from end-of-life electric and electronic products seems to lead to an unavoidable trade-off between circularity maximisation and quality concerns. However, optimized pre-treatment can help to assure that both polymer fraction compatibility and imperfect separation with the available technologies are fully taken into account to assure maximum plastics recycling. A systematic approach to determine pre-sorting product and component clusters, that allow recycling with conventional separation techniques, is explained. Using statistical data sets for a case study of selected common WEEE products categories, the clusters in which to sort the products and dismantled components are documented and can support enhanced polymer recycling in an industrial setting.

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产品集群作为增强 WEEE 塑料回收的策略

摘要 从报废的电气和电子产品中扩大材料回收的雄心似乎导致了循环最大化和质量问题之间不可避免的权衡。然而，优化的预处理有助于确保聚合物部分的兼容性和与可用技术的不完全分离都得到充分考虑，以确保最大程度地回收塑料。解释了一种确定预分拣产品和组件簇的系统方法，该方法允许使用传统分离技术进行回收。使用统计数据集对选定的常见 WEEE 产品类别进行案例研究，记录分类产品和拆卸组件的集群，并可以支持工业环境中增强聚合物回收。