Plastic Waste and Recycling: Environmental Impact, Societal Issues, Prevention, and Solutions

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 replacementConsiders major societal and environmental issues, providing the reader with a broader understanding and supporting effective implementationIncludes detailed case studies from across the globe, offering unique insights into different solutions and approaches INDICE: A. INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction 2. Production, Use and Fate of all Synthetic Plastic B. INNOVATION IN PLASTIC MATERIALS 3. The Geography and Geology of Plastics: the environmental distribution and fate 4. Bio-based Plastics 5.  Biodegradable plastics C. END OF LIFE PROBLEMS FOR PLASTIC WASTE 6. Current Industrial position on plastic production and recycling 7. Plastic Waste in the Terrestrial Environment 8. The Environmental impacts of plastic pollution 9. Microplastics: from origins to impacts 10. Textile Production and End of Life Management Options D. SOLUTIONS FOR PLASTIC WASTE  11. Mechanical Recycling of Packaging Waste 12. Blast furnace feedstock and coke oven chemical feedstock 13. Chemical Routes for Recycling - dissolving, catalytic and thermochemical technologies 14. Conversion of Plastic Waste to fuel 15. The treatment of plastic in ASR (automobile shredder residue) 16. Solutions to the plastic waste problem: on land and in the ocean E. PLASTICS: SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 17. Plastics we can't live without 18. Secondary Plastic Products - examples and market trends 19. Plastic Waste in a Circular Economy 20. Ecological and Health issues of Plastic Waste F.  PLASTIC WASTE AROUND THE WORLD 21. Plastic Waste in Asia 22. The Challenge of Plastic Pollution in Nigeria 23. Plastic waste in the United Kingdom 24. EU's plastic strategy and an impact assessment of the proposed directive on tackling single use plastics items

• ISBN: 978-0-12-817880-5
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 800
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2020
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés