The aim of the research project is to establish up-recycling program for waste liquid crystal display (LCD). We’ll focus on waste plastic recycling from e-waste this year. The procedure is to disassemble the waste plastic from e-waste, and after modifying and improving the quality, we’ll apply recycled plastic material to the brand-new high-resolution (HR) LCD set. Six main steps have been planned in this project. Step 1: “Sorting and collecting the waste plastic”, we set “ABS” up to be the recycling target, according to the result of researching the material of the LCD set rear case. In the meantime, we plan the methods and procedures to sort and collect plastic waste from the e-waste recycler. Step 2: “Producing and modifying recycled granulated plastic”, based on properties and specifucations of the LCD set rear case, we’ll seek to create recycled granulated plastic complied with demand. Step 3: “Manufacturing the LCD set rear case via plastic injection molding”, we’ll develop mold components to manufacture rear case utilizing recycled granulated plastic. Step 4: “Assembling HR LCD sets”, we’ll assemble 190 pieces of the LCD set with a 65-inch display from recycled rear cases, LCD panels and other electronic parts to test and verify. Step 5: “The LCD set environmental certification”, after finish manufacturing, we’ll implement the environmental certification, as in, carbon reduction and the certification secondary plastic material so as to propagandize the circular economy action plan. Step 6: “Factory evaluation”, we’ll evaluate the scale of the factory for waste LCD external circulation based on recovered amount of wasted LCD.

LCD panel, External recycling, Post consumer recycled