Wrocław Uniyęrsity of Technology
Table 15: Purity specifications of sorted materials (GEISEN, 1996, CHRISTIANI et al, 2001)
Fraction |
Purity speciflcation |
Purity [%] |
Films >DIN A4 |
Larger than DIN A4 |
94% |
Bottle plastics< 5I |
Smaller than 51 |
94% |
Styrofoam |
Coarse-grained, white, bigger than fist sized |
94% |
Cups < 11 |
Smaller than 1 I, with and without cap. residues included |
90% |
Mixed plastics |
Plastic packaging and plastic containing items except those plastics sorted into other plastic fractions |
90% |
Aluminium |
Aluminium and aluminium films, excluding beverage cartons and metalled films |
93% |
Fin plates |
Fm plates |
93% |
Beverage cartons (cardboard com-posite) |
Beverage cartons (cardboard composite) madę of cardboard/PE or cardboard/Aluminium/PE, mostly free of items from other fractions and also of foreign materials that would makes recycling morę diffi-cult |
90% |
Paper/cardboard composite |
Wrapping paper, packaging for frozen food, average 90% paper and 10% plastics. |
85% |