
Plastic Waste and Recycling
Environmental Impact, Societal Issues, Prevention, and Solutions
Description
Key Features
- 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
Readership
Academia: Researchers and advanced students across plastics engineering, polymer science, polymer chemistry, environmental science, and sustainable materials. Industry: Scientists, R&D professionals and engineers, in the areas of plastics processing and products, plastics recycling
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to plastic waste and recycling
Trevor M. Letcher2. Production, use, and fate of synthetic polymers
Roland Geyer3. The geography and geology of plastics: their environmental
distribution and fate
Sarah Gabbott, Sarah Key, Catherine Russell, Yasmin Yohan and
Jan Zalasiewicz4. Biobased plastics
Stephan Kabasci5. Biodegradable plastics
Maja Rujnic Havstad6. Current industry position on plastic production and recycling
Edward Kosior and Jonathan Mitchell7. Plastic waste in the terrestrial environment
Rachel Hurley, Alice Horton, Amy Lusher and Luca Nizzetto8. The environmental impacts of plastic pollution
Natalie A. Welden9. Microplastics: from origin to impacts
Natalie A. Welden and Amy Lusher10. Textiles production and end-of-life management options
Andreas Bartl11. Mechanical recycling of packaging waste
Alexander Feil and Thomas Pretz12. Blast furnace feedstock and coke oven chemical feedstock
Seiji Nomura13. Chemical routes for recyclingddissolving, catalytic, and
thermochemical technologies
Maija Pohjakallio and Tommi Vuorinen14. Conversion of plastic waste to fuel
Mohanraj Chandran, Senthilkumar Tamilkolundu and
Chandrasekar Murugesan15. The treatment of plastic in automobile shredder residue
Alfons Buekens and Trevor M. Letcher16. Solutions to the plastic waste problem on land and in the
oceans
Edward Kosior and Irene Crescenzi17. Plastics we cannot live without
Sharon George18. Secondary plastic productsdexamples and market trends
Maija Pohjakallio19. Plastic waste in a circular economy
John N. Hahladakis, Eleni Iacovidou and Spyridoula Gerassimidou20. Ecological and health issues of plastic waste
Cayla R. Cook and Rolf U. Halden21. Policy responses to plastic pollution in Asia: summary of a
regional gap analysis
Lewis Akenji, Magnus Bengtsson, Yasuhiko Hotta, Mizuki Kato and
Matthew Hengesbaugh22. The challenge of plastic pollution in Nigeria
Emeka Dumbili and Lesley Henderson23. Plastic waste in the United Kingdom
Libby Peake24. 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
Product details
- No. of pages: 686
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: March 10, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128178805
- eBook ISBN: 9780128178812
About the Editor
Trevor Letcher
