Plastic Waste Recycling Case Study

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PROBLEM DESCRIPTION
Alternative for reducing plastic waste disposal in the University of Windsor
Background of issue
Each and every year, number of students coming to attend University of Windsor for graduate program is increasing day by day. There was total of 38,107 students admitted to University of Windsor in 2017 which is really a very big number and plastic waste generated is unimaginable. There are large number of restaurant and eating joints in and around University of Windsor, which create lot of plastic waste, majority of which consists of plastic bottles from soft drinks. Manufacturing plastic bottles to such a large extent is not good for humans, animals and environment. We need to take some drastic steps.[1]

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As indicated by the Environmental Protection Agency, reusing one pound of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), the plastic most regularly utilized as a part of water bottles, saves roughly 12,000 BTUs (British thermal units) of heat energy. The reusing procedure utilizes around 66% less energy than conventional manufacturing, fundamentally decreasing the strain on the customary power framework, which depends on the consumption of petroleum products and if reusing it straightaway, it utilizes next to no …show more content…

There are lots of factors which are responsible for the pollution and one of them is plastic waste. We decided to build a green house using plastic bottles. In that way, we can use plastic waste which is very hard or almost impossible to recycle, which causes less pollution to environment. Completion of this project includes procedure of building plant, cost of project, to consider obstacles which may arise during implementation and for that we divided our team into two groups.

Implementation
Out of two groups, one group gathered the general information by visiting various departments of the university. The general information includes the number of plastic bottles we can collect per day, process of collecting plastic bottles and the time needed to gather these plastic wastes. While the other group was given the responsibility of online research such as technical process of building plant, quantity of bottles needed to build plant and outcome of green house. After collecting the information by both groups, we discussed with each other about how we will use this information in implementation of our

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