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These panels are fabricated by bonding sheets of aluminium onto a polyethylene-based core, and throughout the early 21st century they were installed extensively on high-rise buildings. The 2017 Grenfell Tower fire, in which ACP\u2019s contributed significantly, resulted in a blanket ban on ACP\u2019s in many countries. Consequently, there was a near overnight need to dispose of stockpiles of ACP\u2019s and the ongoing supply of ACP\u2019s from building fire-safety remediation works. Like many composite materials, ACP\u2019s are economical to put together but impractical to separate for disposal. This work presents the development of a bespoke process to efficiently and effectively deconstruct ACP\u2019s thereby enabling both the aluminium and polymer components to be recycled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presentation by Dr Thomas Loh (RMIT University)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"nba-redirect":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[20,5,9],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations","tag-construction-waste","tag-plastics","tag-upcycling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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