Circularity of Plastics: Sustainability, Emerging Materials, and Valorization of Waste Plastic takes an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to circularity and sustainability in plastics, with an emphasis on plastic waste and end-of-life treatment and options for recycling, re-use, valorization and development of biomass-based polymers. The book introduces key concepts of sustainable materials, the circular economy, and lifecycle assessment, and discusses challenges in the valorization of waste. Other sections cover the upcycling of waste plastic into new materials and fuels, with dedicated chapters exploring state-of-the-art techniques for conversion to new sustainable polymers, fuel, fine chemicals and carbon nanomaterials.
Emerging technologies used to produce functional polymers from renewable feedstocks, including CO2, biomass, natural polymers, polylactic acid (PLA), and polyhydroxyalkanoate-based materials (PHAs) are then explored, with a final chapter focusing on applications of sustainable materials, challenges, and future perspectives. This is a valuable resource for researchers, scientists, engineers, R&D professionals, and advanced students from a range of disciplines and backgrounds, with an interest in sustainable materials, circularity in plastics, and polymer waste and valorization.
1. Circularity of Plastics - p. Page i 2. Cover - p. Page i 3. Front Matter - p. Page ii 4. Table of Contents - p. Page iii 5. Copyright - p. Page iv 6. Contributors - p. Page iv 7. Editor’s biographies - p. Page vii 8. List of Illustrations - p. Page viii 9. List of Tables - p. Page ix 10. Chapter 1 : Sustainable material management for a circular plastics economy - p. Page ix 11. Chapter 2 : Sustainable chemical recycling of plastic waste - p. Page 29 12. Chapter 3 : Converting plastic waste to fuel and fine chemicals - p. Page 62 13. Chapter 4 : Upcycling of waste plastics to carbon nanomaterials - p. Page 94 14. Chapter 5 : Functional polymers from CO2 as feedstock - p. Page 119 15. Chapter 6 : Functional polymers from biomass-based monomers - p. Page 156 16. Chapter 7 : New functional materials from lignocellulosic biomass - p. Page 198 17. Chapter 8 : Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) as a building block for a circular economy - p. Page 230 18. Chapter 9 : Poly(hydroxyalkanoates) (PHAs) based circular materials for a sustainable future - p. Page 259 19. Chapter 10 : Sustainable materials applications: Current challenges and future perspectives - p. Page 294 20. Index - p. Page 315
Circularity of Plastics: Sustainability, Emerging Materials, and Valorization of Waste Plastic takes an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to circularity and sustainability in plastics, with an emphasis on plastic waste and end-of-life treatment and options for recycling, re-use, valorization and development of biomass-based polymers. The book introduces key concepts of sustainable materials, the circular economy, and lifecycle assessment, and discusses challenges in the valorization of waste. Other sections cover the upcycling of waste plastic into new materials and fuels, with dedicated chapters exploring state-of-the-art techniques for conversion to new sustainable polymers, fuel, fine chemicals and carbon nanomaterials.
Emerging technologies used to produce functional polymers from renewable feedstocks, including CO2, biomass, natural polymers, polylactic acid (PLA), and polyhydroxyalkanoate-based materials (PHAs) are then explored, with a final chapter focusing on applications of sustainable materials, challenges, and future perspectives. This is a valuable resource for researchers, scientists, engineers, R&D professionals, and advanced students from a range of disciplines and backgrounds, with an interest in sustainable materials, circularity in plastics, and polymer waste and valorization.
1. Circularity of Plastics - p. Page i 2. Cover - p. Page i 3. Front Matter - p. Page ii 4. Table of Contents - p. Page iii 5. Copyright - p. Page iv 6. Contributors - p. Page iv 7. Editor’s biographies - p. Page vii 8. List of Illustrations - p. Page viii 9. List of Tables - p. Page ix 10. Chapter 1 : Sustainable material management for a circular plastics economy - p. Page ix 11. Chapter 2 : Sustainable chemical recycling of plastic waste - p. Page 29 12. Chapter 3 : Converting plastic waste to fuel and fine chemicals - p. Page 62 13. Chapter 4 : Upcycling of waste plastics to carbon nanomaterials - p. Page 94 14. Chapter 5 : Functional polymers from CO2 as feedstock - p. Page 119 15. Chapter 6 : Functional polymers from biomass-based monomers - p. Page 156 16. Chapter 7 : New functional materials from lignocellulosic biomass - p. Page 198 17. Chapter 8 : Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) as a building block for a circular economy - p. Page 230 18. Chapter 9 : Poly(hydroxyalkanoates) (PHAs) based circular materials for a sustainable future - p. Page 259 19. Chapter 10 : Sustainable materials applications: Current challenges and future perspectives - p. Page 294 20. Index - p. Page 315
