Chapter 27

From Recycling to Eco-design

Elisabeth Maris1Daniel Froelich1Améziane Aoussat2 and Emmanuel Naffrechoux3     1Laboratoire Conception Produit Innovation, Chambéry (LCPI), Institut Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Chambéry, Savoie Technolac, Le Bourget du Lac, France     2LCPI, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Paris, France     3Laboratoire Chimie moléculaire Environnement (LCME), Université de Savoie, Le Bourget du Lac, France

Abstract

The recycling of polymer materials from end-of-life products is essential to protect our nonrenewable resources, as well as to decrease our impacts on climate change and the effects on human health and ecosystems. Several barriers exist to the recycling of materials, including technical and social barriers linked ...

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