This book is essential reading for those involved in plastic recycling, whether from an academic or industrial perspective.
Comparisons are made between the different types of recycling currently available in terms of life cycle assessment and environmental impact. Feedstock recycling is discussed extensively in this review.
Pyrolysis is a recycling technique converting plastic waste into fuels, monomers, or other valuable materials by thermal and catalytic cracking processes. It allows the treatment of mixed, unwashed plastic wastes....
This is an essential guide for anyone involved in plastic waste or recycling, including researchers and advanced students across plastics engineering, polymer science, polymer chemistry, environmental science, and sustainable materials.
Distribution of global plastics production in 2019. It does not include PET fibers, PA fibers, and polyacryl fibers. (reprinted with permission from Plastics Europe 13. Source: Plastics Europe, all rights reserved). -- Figure 3.
Plastics have become one of the most prolific materials on the planet: in 2015 we produced about 380 million tonnes of plastics globally, up from 2 million tonnes in the 1950s.
There is no doubt, however, that in the short term, advances in plastics recycling will need to be facilitated through government policies. ... Recycled Plastic Product Source Book, http://sourcebook.plasticsresource.com/ index.html 3.
This policy brief outlines the main findings from the project Plastic Waste Markets: Overcoming barriers to better resource utilisation.
This project examines the market for recycled plastic, with a primary focus on post-consumer plastic waste because this is considered to be the more problematic.
This book comprises 5 chapters covering areas such as, recycling of polystyrene, polyesters, PC, WEEE and wood waste, together with compostable polymers and nanocomposites.
Sections 2 through 7 focus on polymeric materials--plastics, elastomers, polymer-matrix composites, adhesives, and sealants--with the information largely updated and expanded from the first three volumes of the Engineered Materials Handbook ...