Application of electrostatic separation for plastic waste management in Indonesia: a review and prospectus

Pollution from plastic packaging in Indonesia is an important issue that must be immediately found a solution. Various kinds of research have been conducted to provide solutions for the problem of garbage/plastic waste. Utilization of plastic waste as construction materials such as paving, brick walls, roofs, hinges, doors, and roofs, has become one of the recycling solutions that have unique selling points and characteristics. Separation of plastic waste is one of the solutive steps to determine the type of recycling process that will be carried out in the next step. Separation of material based on its type can be done in various ways, such as picking, screening, magnetic, air classification, optical separation, Eddy’s current method, and flotation. Plastic waste, which is an insulating material, can be separated by electrostatic separation method, making it easier for the selection of further processes to handle the plastic waste. Based on the results of experiments on the plastic waste separation laboratory at the PPRIME Institute, UPR 3346, CNRS - University of Poitiers ENSMA IUT d'Angouleme, France. The environmental conditions in Indonesia are feasible for the implementation of this separation technology so that the tribo-corona separation model could become a green technology model to face the danger of plastic waste pollution in Indonesia.