
A Practical Guide to Plastics Sustainability
Concept, Solutions, and Implementation
Description
Key Features
- Approaches the idea of sustainability from numerous angles, offering practical solutions to improve sustainability in the development of plastic components and products
- Explains how sustainability can be applied across plastics design, materials selection, processing, and end of life, all set alongside socioeconomic factors
- Considers key areas of innovation, such as eco-design, novel opportunities for recycling or re-use, bio-based polymers and new technologies
Readership
Academic: Researchers and advanced students in plastics engineering, polymer science, sustainability, environmental science, materials science, mechanical engineering, and chemical engineering
Table of Contents
1. An Overview of Sustainability and Plastics: A Multifaceted, Relative and Scalable concept
2. Plastics Overview: Outline of the Current Situation of Plastics
3. Metrics of Sustainability in Plastics: Indicators, Standards, and Software
4. Easy Measures Relating to Improved Plastics Sustainability
5. Eco-design Rules for Plastics Sustainability
6. Environmental and Engineering Data to Support Eco-design for Plastics
7. Advanced Environmental and Engineering Properties to Support Eco-design for Plastics
8. Economics Relating to Fossil and Renewable Plastics
9. Recycling of Plastics, Advantages and Limitation of Use
10. Transition of Plastics to Renewable Feedstock and Raw Materials
11. Plastics Sustainability: Drivers and Obstacles
12. Plastics Sustainability: Prospective
Product details
- No. of pages: 690
- Language: English
- Copyright: © William Andrew 2020
- Published: April 18, 2020
- Imprint: William Andrew
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128215395
- eBook ISBN: 9780128215401
About the Author
Michel Biron
de Rouen and Polymer Specialist from the Institut Français du Caoutchouc. He has authored numerous technical papers and books on plastics.
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