Description
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
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to plastic waste and recycling Trevor M. Letcher2. Production, use, and fate of synthetic polymersRoland Geyer3. The geography and geology of plastics: their environmentaldistribution and fateSarah Gabbott, Sarah Key, Catherine Russell, Yasmin Yohan andJan Zalasiewicz4. Biobased plasticsStephan Kabasci5. Biodegradable plasticsMaja Rujnic Havstad6. Current industry position on plastic production and recyclingEdward Kosior and Jonathan Mitchell7. Plastic waste in the terrestrial environmentRachel Hurley, Alice Horton, Amy Lusher and Luca Nizzetto8. The environmental impacts of plastic pollutionNatalie A. Welden9. Microplastics: from origin to impactsNatalie A. Welden and Amy Lusher10. Textiles production and end-of-life management optionsAndreas Bartl11. Mechanical recycling of packaging wasteAlexander Feil and Thomas Pretz12. Blast furnace feedstock and coke oven chemical feedstockSeiji Nomura13. Chemical routes for recyclingddissolving, catalytic, andthermochemical technologiesMaija Pohjakallio and Tommi Vuorinen14. Conversion of plastic waste to fuelMohanraj Chandran, Senthilkumar Tamilkolundu andChandrasekar Murugesan15. The treatment of plastic in automobile shredder residueAlfons Buekens and Trevor M. Letcher16. Solutions to the plastic waste problem on land and in theoceansEdward Kosior and Irene Crescenzi17. Plastics we cannot live withoutSharon George18. Secondary plastic productsdexamples and market trendsMaija Pohjakallio19. Plastic waste in a circular economyJohn N. Hahladakis, Eleni Iacovidou and Spyridoula Gerassimidou20. Ecological and health issues of plastic wasteCayla R. Cook and Rolf U. Halden21. Policy responses to plastic pollution in Asia: summary of aregional gap analysisLewis Akenji, Magnus Bengtsson, Yasuhiko Hotta, Mizuki Kato andMatthew Hengesbaugh22. The challenge of plastic pollution in NigeriaEmeka Dumbili and Lesley Henderson23. Plastic waste in the United KingdomLibby Peake24. European Union's plastic strategy and an impact assessmentof the proposed directive on tackling single-use plastics itemsTim Elliott, Hannah Gillie and Alice Thomson
