Feedstock Recycling Technologies for Municipal Plastic Waste in Japan

Abstract
To achieve sustainable development in the 21st century in Japan the most pressing issue is to withdraw from a mass production, mass consumption, mass waste economic system and urgently create a recycling-oriented society.
So to create a recycling-oriented society many recycling laws have been enforced and will be enforced in Japan in 2001. Many kinds of plastic chemical (feedstock) recycling technologies have been developed for the smooth implementation of Containers and Packaging Recycling Law. Among these newly developed plastic feedstock recycling technologies. I will introduce a plastic waste recycling system combined with a blast furnace, a plastic waste recycling system combined with a coke oven and a hydrogen and carbon mono-oxide gas production system from plastic waste by a pressurized two stage gasification process.

Key words: plastic feedstock recycling, recycling-oriented society, blast furnace, coke oven, gasification