pre-cleaning-system-design-for-hdpe-bottles

This repository contains the technical documentation of the prototype station for pre-cleaning of the HDPE bottles. The station aims to provide a sustainable solution for enhancing the recycling processes in low-resource settings.

https://github.com/global-health-engineering/pre-cleaning-system-design-for-hdpe-bottles

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Owner: Global-Health-Engineering
License: cc-by-4.0
Language: JavaScript
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Homepage: https://global-health-engineering.github.io/pre-cleaning-system-design-for-HDPE-bottles/
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README.md

Design of an HDPE bottle collection and pre-cleaning system for recycling in Blantyre, Malawi

Contributors
- Timo Stutz author
- Elizabeth Tilley 0000-0002-2095-9724 supervisor
- Lin Boynton 0000-0002-9944-3834 supervisor
- Jakub Tkaczuk 0000-0001-7997-9423 supervisor, developer, maintainer
- Nicolas Seemann-Ricard 0000-0002-0945-7475 developer

This work is certified by the Open Source Hardware Association.

Complete description of system design, functionalities, operation, and maintenance is available on:
Github pages.

It compliments the openly-accessible master’s thesis, available on the

ETH Research Collection.

The pdf version of this repository is available in the report directory of this repo.

Background

This repository contains an overview of a prototype for an HDPE bottle pre-cleaning station, developed as a sustainable solution to enhance recycling processes in low-resource settings. The prototype was developed within the master’s thesis of Timo Stutz, contributing to a PhD project conducted by Lin Boynton at the Chair of Global Health Engineering at ETH Zurich. The PhD research aims to design, implement, and evaluate a closed-loop plastic bottle recycling scheme in low-income countries to efficiently, and effectively manage the flow of waste bottles from consumers into new drinking bottles. The prototype addresses the challenges of recycling contaminated HDPE bottles by introducing an efficient, scalable, and locally adaptable pre-cleaning system aiming to reduce the efforts and costs of subsequent recycling processes. Designed and tested through a collaborative research project, this documentation summarizes the prototype's design, constructional and operational procedures, maintenance of the device, and safety recommendations.

License

This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

Owner

Name: Global Health Engineering
Login: Global-Health-Engineering
Kind: organization
Location: Switzerland

Website: https://ghe.ethz.ch/
Twitter: ETH_GHE
Repositories: 23
Profile: https://github.com/Global-Health-Engineering

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message: "To cite this repository, use:"
license: CC-BY-4.0
title: "Design of an HDPE bottle collection and pre-cleaning system for recycling in Blantyre, Malawi"
date-released: "2023-12-31"
type: software
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.10947980
authors:
  - family-names: Stutz
    given-names: Timo
    email: timo.stutz@hest.ethz.ch
  - family-names: Boynton
    given-names: Lin
    email: lboynton@ethz.ch
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9944-3834
  - family-names: Tilley
    given-names: Elizabeth
    email: tilleye@ethz.ch
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2095-9724
  - family-names: Tkaczuk
    given-names: Jakub
    email: jtkaczuk@ethz.ch
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7997-9423
  - family-names: Seemann-Ricard
    given-names: Nicolas
    email: nseemann@student.ethz.ch
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0945-7475
contact:
  - family-names: Tkaczuk
    given-names: Jakub
    email: jtkaczuk@ethz.ch
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7997-9423
version: 0.0.1

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