The oil reclamation system for recycling municipal waste plastics in Sapppro plastic recycle Co. LTD. (SPR) has been operated commercially for near ten years by which more than 67,000 ton waste plastics had been recycled even though polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) are contained. As a result, SPR has achieved high recycling rate about 90% of recycled products. In addition, hydrocarbon oil has been produced as a by-product which can be used as the raw material for chemical industrial plant. Moreover, cascade recycle which chemical recycle (CR) will be done for selected waste plastics mixed with material recycle (MR) residues after material recycle has been studied since 2008. This paper reports the current issues of oil reclamation system for recycling municipal waste plastics in Japan.
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