Costa Rica currently lacks post-consumer plastic recycling, due primarily to the fact that there is no washing process in practice; thus dirt and contaminants adhered to the plastics cannot be removed and will damage processing equipment and devalue the resulting secondary plastics. This project, submitted to el Centro de Investigaciones en Contaminacion Ambiental (CICA), analyzes each phase of the recycling process and provides recommendations for the implementation of a pilot post-consumer plastics recycling program in Santa Ana, Costa Rica.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Wheeler, Katherine Carter.
• Arthur, Janelle Corrinne.
• Caswell, Elizabeth Anne.

Subject

• Industry
• Environment
• Sustainability

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 00E061I

Mot-clé

• Plastics--Environmental aspects
• Recycling (Waste, etc.)
• Plastics
• Sustainability

Advisor

• Rivera, Angel A.
• Pietroforte, Roberto

Year

• 2000

Center

• San Jose, Costa Rica Project Center - IQP

Date created

• 2000-01-01

Emplacement

• San José

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright