An algorithm for predicting the properties of products incorporating recycled polymers

An algorithm that can be used to predict a great variety of important properties of mixtures of virgin and recycled polymers is developed in the present work. This algorithm revises a derivation previously published in the literature and generalizes it to take into account properties that cannot be determined without a processing operation. Its validity was tested using data obtained in experiments with mixtures of virgin polymer and polymer recycled a number of times. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.