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Design and Fabrication of Plastic Shredder
(2017-10-11T06:38:04Z) Fashid, N S; Gawaz, Mohamed Ali; Freddy, Babu; Jithin, Varghese
Plastic have been one of man’s means of bearing items or contents, widely used by majority in the world. This material is readily used with ease because of its characteristics which include resilience, lightness, resistance to corrosion, and ease of processing. One of many problems facing the world today is the environmental waste control. For more than two decades, the amount of plastic waste littering the streets has been of crucial environmental problem. The proper system of plastic waste collection is missing, and the people are not educated as to the problems of plastic waste. Every home generates waste from plastic, ranging from used nylon’s, plastic bottles down to big plastic containers like buckets, jerry cans, kegs, and so on. However, the non-biodegradable nature of plastic waste poses a big problem since these wastes can stay longer in our environment causing all sorts of problems. Biodegradable waste accounts for over 50% of waste generated with other component estimated at different composition in different states. Due to the non-biodegradable nature of plastic waste, the way forward for plastic waste