Plastic Waste and Recycling: Environmental Impact, Societal Issues, Prevention, and Solutions begins with an introduction to the different types of plastic materials, their uses, and the concepts of reduce, reuse and recycle before examining plastic types, chemistry and degradation patterns that are...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Letcher, Trevor M. (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London, United Kingdom Academic Press, Elsevier [2020]
Schlagworte:	Recycling World Congress Kunststoff Kunststoffabfall Aufsatzsammlung
Zusammenfassung:	Plastic Waste and Recycling: Environmental Impact, Societal Issues, Prevention, and Solutions begins with an introduction to the different types of plastic materials, their uses, and the concepts of reduce, reuse and recycle before examining plastic types, chemistry and degradation patterns that are organized by non-degradable plastic, degradable and biodegradable plastics, biopolymers and bioplastics. Other sections cover current challenges relating to plastic waste, explain the sources of waste and their routes into the environment, and provide systematic coverage of plastic waste treatment methods, including mechanical processing, monomerization, blast furnace feedstocks, gasification, thermal recycling, and conversion to fuel. 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. - Presents actionable solutions for reducing plastic waste, with a focus on the concepts of collection, re-use, recycling and replacement- Considers major societal and environmental issues, providing the reader with a broader understanding and supporting effective implementation- Includes detailed case studies from across the globe, offering unique insights into different solutions and approaches
Beschreibung:	1. Introduction to plastic waste and recycling Trevor M. Letcher; 2. Production, use, and fate of synthetic polymers Roland Geyer; 3. The geography and geology of plastics: their environmental distribution and fate Sarah Gabbott, Sarah Key, Catherine Russell, Yasmin Yohan and Jan Zalasiewicz; 4. Biobased plastics Stephan Kabasci; 5. Biodegradable plastics Maja Rujnic Havstad; 6. Current industry position on plastic production and recycling Edward Kosior and Jonathan Mitchell; 7. Plastic waste in the terrestrial environment Rachel Hurley, Alice Horton, Amy Lusher and Luca Nizzetto; 8. The environmental impacts of plastic pollution Natalie A. Welden; 9. Microplastics: from origin to impacts Natalie A. Welden and Amy Lusher; 10. Textiles production and end-of-life management options Andreas Bartl; 11. Mechanical recycling of packaging waste Alexander Feil and Thomas Pretz; 12. Blast furnace feedstock and coke oven chemical feedstock Seiji Nomura; 13. Chemical routes for recyclingddissolving, catalytic, and thermochemical technologies Maija Pohjakallio and Tommi Vuorinen; 14. Conversion of plastic waste to fuel Mohanraj Chandran, Senthilkumar Tamilkolundu and Chandrasekar Murugesan; 15. The treatment of plastic in automobile shredder residue Alfons Buekens and Trevor M. Letcher; 16. Solutions to the plastic waste problem on land and in the oceans Edward Kosior and Irene Crescenzi; 17. Plastics we cannot live without Sharon George; 18. Secondary plastic productsdexamples and market trends Maija Pohjakallio; 19. Plastic waste in a circular economy John N. Hahladakis, Eleni Iacovidou and Spyridoula Gerassimidou; 20. Ecological and health issues of plastic waste Cayla R. Cook and Rolf U. Halden; 21. Policy responses to plastic pollution in Asia: summary of a regional gap analysis Lewis Akenji, Magnus Bengtsson, Yasuhiko Hotta, Mizuki Kato and Matthew Hengesbaugh; 22. - The challenge of plastic pollution in Nigeria Emeka Dumbili and Lesley Henderson; 23. Plastic waste in the United Kingdom Libby Peake; 24. European Union's plastic strategy and an impact assessment of the proposed directive on tackling single-use plastics items Tim Elliott, Hannah Gillie and Alice Thomson
Beschreibung:	xxi, 664 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme 235 mm
ISBN:	9780128178805