Oxidized Bitumen

Recycling plastic

Plastics are used in a wide range of applications and some plastics items, such as food packaging, become waste only a short time after purchase.

Other plastic items lend themselves to be reused many times over.

Reusing plastic is preferable to recycling as it uses less energy and fewer resources. Long life, multi-trip plastics packaging has become more widespread in recent years, replacing less durable and single-trip alternatives, so reducing waste. For example, the major supermarkets have increased their use of returnable plastic crates for transport and display purposes four-fold  They usually last up to 20 years and can be recycled at the end of their useful life.

Why we must Recycle Plastics

 An estimated 56% of all plastics waste is used packaging, three-quarters of which is from households. It is estimated that only 7% of total plastic waste arisings are currently being recycled. The production and use of plastics has a range of environmental impacts. Firstly, plastics production requires significant quantities of resources, primarily fossil fuels, both as  raw material and to deliver energy for the manufacturing process. It is

Types of plastics

There are about 50 different groups of plastics, with hundreds of different varieties. All types of plastic are recyclable. To make sorting  Recycling easier, the American Society of Plastics Industry developed a standard marking code to help consumers identify and sort the main types of plastic.

These types and their most common uses are:

·         PET-  Polyethylene terephthalate - Fizzy drink bottles and oven-ready meal trays.

·         HDPE-  High-density polyethylene - Bottles for milk and washing-up liquids.

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Summary

Benzene International Pte is a multi faceted organization that is structured into two divisions. Namely:  the Petro Chemical Division and the Vegetable Oil Division. Both these groups combined together manufacture, procure, distribute and export a wide range of products and commodities thereby meeting the requirements and also matching the expectations of its customers’ world wide.

Many popular North American engine oils may actually be harmful to European engines. European automobile manufacturers design vehicles to use specific high quality lubri¬cants with specific properties and additives.  Most motor oils offered in America do not meet the demanding specifications, and the European lubricants are not readily available.  As a result, problems such as premature wear and engine sludge develop.

"Europeans build their cars and impose higher requirements on the type of oil than we are used to here in North America," remarks an oil industry source.  "They have more of a multi-tier system within their specifications, whereas the API uses the lowest common denominator as a guideline.

It is by its own admission, within API 1509, a minimum Spec.

While the American Petroleum Institute (API) sets oil standards in America, the Automotive Manufacturers Association (ACEA) sets them in Europe.  "ACEA standards reflect a wider complexity of the offering of engines on the market right now," says Herve Blanquart, VP Automotive of Motul North America.  "On top of that, manufactur¬ers have introduced their own standards, most of which start with the ACEA standards, and go further in specific tests to solve specific problems and address specific issues." In the U.S., the API adopts one standard for all engine oils.  "For example they are work¬ing on ILSAC GF-4, and the problems they are running into is that this oil will be too thin for a lot of older engines," explains Blanquart.  "In Europe, they decided from the beginning that they would not adopt a lin¬ear standard - rather a standard for each type of application - gas, diesel, turbo, etc."