@article {1630,
	title = {Plastic separation planning for end-of-life electronics},
	journal = {Ieee Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing},
	volume = {29},
	number = {2},
	year = {2006},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: 046PLTimes Cited: 3Cited Reference Count: 34},
	month = {Apr},
	pages = {110-118},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {Important challenges remain for sustainable design, manufacture, use, and recycling of electronics including materials selection and disassembly time. This paper examines the value relationship between the quantity of plastics separated and the time required for disassembly and segregation. Labor,costs for disassembly can constitute a large portion of the total acquisition cost for a recycled material. We report work measurement studies conducted on the disassembly of 21 computers, 22 printers, and 32 monitors manufactured by 27 producers in the years from 1984 to 2001. Results include the weight per total separation time for each plastic part. Each recovered part is identified according to polymer resin using laser Raman spectroscopy by chemometric reference to a library of standards. We extrapolate time as well as the product input required to accumulate various specific types of plastic. We develop disassembly policies and show that they are effective for a variety of computer, printer, or monitor models, which is typical of the random product streams that arrive at electronics recycling facilities. The results demonstrate how new laser identification tech- nology and work measurement can be used for plastics separation planning.},
	keywords = {DESIGN, disassembly, electronics recycling, measurement, plastics, Raman spectroscopy, work},
	isbn = {1521-334X},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000237823400006},
	author = {Williams, J. A. S. and Grant, E. R. and Rios, P. and Blyler, L. and Tieman, L. and Twining, L. and Bonawi-Tan, W. and Madden, M. and Guthrie, N. R. M.}
}
@article {1526,
	title = {Viable plastics recycling from end-of-life electronics},
	journal = {Ieee Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing},
	volume = {29},
	number = {1},
	year = {2006},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: 010ALTimes Cited: 3Cited Reference Count: 62},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {25-31},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {Millions of end-of-life (EOL) electronic products represent more than one million tons of engineering thermoplastics. The economically and environmentally sound recovery of engineering thermoplastics from EOL electronics is a challenge to the sustainability of electronics manufacturing. In this paper, we review the technologies to separate and identify pure post-consumer plastics from EOL electronics, which are followed by the comparison of electronic plastics recycling processes and the network models for plastics recycling processes. We also review successful plastics recycling practices for electronics. In addition, further research directions for recycling plastics from EOL electronics are discussed.},
	keywords = {DECISION-MAKING, DESIGN, disassembly, end-of-life (EOL) electronics, HIGH-IMPACT POLYSTYRENE, IDENTIFICATION, METHODOLOGY, MODEL, OPTIMIZATION, plastics, PRODUCT, RECOVERY, recycling, SELECTIVE FLOTATION SEPARATION, SEPARATION},
	isbn = {1521-334X},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000235155100004},
	author = {Qu, X. L. and Williams, J. A. S. and Grant, E. R.}
}
