Focus is on recycling waste plastics, tires, or other polymers into feedstocks: specifically, high quality oils, hydrocarbon gases, and monomers. In recent years, there has been extensive research on direct liquefaction, pyrolysis, gasification and extraction of waste polymers. Coprocessing of these materials with fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum resids and waste oil has also received a significant amount of attention. The results are sufficiently promising that it appears feedstock recycling will become a dominant method of recycling waste polymeric materials.

Submission of abstracts should be directed to either symposium chair:

Prof. Edward M. Eyring (plastics focus) Dept. of Chemistry University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112 (801) 581-8658 (801) 581-8433 fax eyring@chemistry.chem.utah.edu

Prof. John W. Zondlo (tires focus) Dept. of Chemical Engineering West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506 (304) 293-2111, ext. 409 (304) 293-4139 fax zondlo@cemr.wvu.edu