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.
1. Part 1. Introduction - p. xxi 2. Chapter 1. Introduction to plastic waste and recycling - p. 3 3. Chapter 2. Production, use, and fate of synthetic polymers - p. 13 4. Chapter 3. The geography and geology of plastics: their environmental distribution and fate - p. 33 5. Part 2. Innovation in plastic materials - p. 63 6. Chapter 4. Biobased plastics - p. 67 7. Chapter 5. Biodegradable plastics - p. 97 8. Part 3. End of life problems for plastic waste - p. 129 9. Chapter 6. Current industry position on plastic production and recycling - p. 133 10. Chapter 7. Plastic waste in the terrestrial environment - p. 163 11. Chapter 8. The environmental impacts of plastic pollution - p. 195 12. Chapter 9. Microplastics: from origin to impacts - p. 223 13. Chapter 10. Textiles production and end-of-life management options - p. 251 14. Part 4. Solutions for plastic waste - p. 279 15. Chapter 11. Mechanical recycling of packaging waste - p. 283 16. Chapter 12. Blast furnace feedstock and coke oven chemical feedstock - p. 321 17. Chapter 13. Chemical routes for recycling—dissolving, catalytic, and thermochemical technologies - p. 359 18. Chapter 14. Conversion of plastic waste to fuel - p. 385 19. Chapter 15. The treatment of plastic in automobile shredder residue - p. 401 20. Chapter 16. Solutions to the plastic waste problem on land and in the oceans - p. 415 21. Part 5. Plastics: society and the environment - p. 446 22. Chapter 17. Plastics we cannot live without - p. 449 23. Chapter 18. Secondary plastic products—examples and market trends - p. 467 24. Chapter 19. Plastic waste in a circular economy - p. 481 25. Chapter 20. Ecological and health issues of plastic waste - p. 513 26. Part 6. Plastic waste around the world - p. 527 27. Chapter 21. Policy responses to plastic pollution in Asia: summary of a regional gap analysis - p. 531 28. Chapter 22. The challenge of plastic pollution in Nigeria - p. 569 29. Chapter 23. Plastic waste in the United Kingdom - p. 585 30. Chapter 24. European Union's plastic strategy and an impact assessment of the proposed directive on tackling single-use plastics items - p. 601 31. Index - p. 635
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.
1. Part 1. Introduction - p. xxi 2. Chapter 1. Introduction to plastic waste and recycling - p. 3 3. Chapter 2. Production, use, and fate of synthetic polymers - p. 13 4. Chapter 3. The geography and geology of plastics: their environmental distribution and fate - p. 33 5. Part 2. Innovation in plastic materials - p. 63 6. Chapter 4. Biobased plastics - p. 67 7. Chapter 5. Biodegradable plastics - p. 97 8. Part 3. End of life problems for plastic waste - p. 129 9. Chapter 6. Current industry position on plastic production and recycling - p. 133 10. Chapter 7. Plastic waste in the terrestrial environment - p. 163 11. Chapter 8. The environmental impacts of plastic pollution - p. 195 12. Chapter 9. Microplastics: from origin to impacts - p. 223 13. Chapter 10. Textiles production and end-of-life management options - p. 251 14. Part 4. Solutions for plastic waste - p. 279 15. Chapter 11. Mechanical recycling of packaging waste - p. 283 16. Chapter 12. Blast furnace feedstock and coke oven chemical feedstock - p. 321 17. Chapter 13. Chemical routes for recycling—dissolving, catalytic, and thermochemical technologies - p. 359 18. Chapter 14. Conversion of plastic waste to fuel - p. 385 19. Chapter 15. The treatment of plastic in automobile shredder residue - p. 401 20. Chapter 16. Solutions to the plastic waste problem on land and in the oceans - p. 415 21. Part 5. Plastics: society and the environment - p. 446 22. Chapter 17. Plastics we cannot live without - p. 449 23. Chapter 18. Secondary plastic products—examples and market trends - p. 467 24. Chapter 19. Plastic waste in a circular economy - p. 481 25. Chapter 20. Ecological and health issues of plastic waste - p. 513 26. Part 6. Plastic waste around the world - p. 527 27. Chapter 21. Policy responses to plastic pollution in Asia: summary of a regional gap analysis - p. 531 28. Chapter 22. The challenge of plastic pollution in Nigeria - p. 569 29. Chapter 23. Plastic waste in the United Kingdom - p. 585 30. Chapter 24. European Union's plastic strategy and an impact assessment of the proposed directive on tackling single-use plastics items - p. 601 31. Index - p. 635
