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Sustainable Plastics
Thus far, the book has reviewed the application of plastics in achieving various sustainable development agendas. This includes sustainable energy...
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Plastics
Get an overview of the most important plastics, their properties and manufacturing methods. Fire behaviour of plastics, smoke development and energy...
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Biodegradation of Plastics
Plastics are polymer products that are derived from fossil fuels like petroleum, oil and natural gas. Many polymer materials are commonly used for...
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The Normative Role of the Circular Plastics Alliance in the EU’s Transition towards a European Circular Economy for Plastics
The global pollution and waste crisis presents us with environmental and economic challenges which if not properly addressed could destabilise or...
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Plastics and Space Exploration
The plastic age seems to have coincided with the new space age. While we seek to redefine the role of plastic in global society, in this chapter we...
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Economic and carbon emission assessment of compostable plastics as a substitute for petrochemical plastics: a case study in Yunnan Province
In the context of a circular economy, efficient resource utilization is crucial for promoting sustainable development. This study employs a...
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Plastics in Waste Management
In recent years, plastics have gained a bad reputation associated with the impact of post-consumer plastic waste on the environment. The less...
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Sustainable Plastics
Plastics are an important growth market for the oil and gas industry, but the enormous amount of unrecycled waste is creating a backlash that could...
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Upcycling chlorinated waste plastics
Over the past decade, chlorinated plastics have been widely used as an indispensable thermoplastic owing to their low cost, durability, wide...
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Assessing the Impact of Plastics
The impact of plastic on the environment has been largely assessed using life cycle assessment. The manner in which these assessments are carried out...
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Plastics
Unsustainable plastic production, use, and mismanagement dominates the growing global waste problem. Plastic waste mismanagement threatens...
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Sustainable production and degradation of plastics using microbes
Plastics are indispensable in everyday life and industry, but the environmental impact of plastic waste on ecosystems and human health is a huge...
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Biorenewable and circular polydiketoenamine plastics
Amid growing concerns over the human health and environmental impacts of plastic waste, the most promising solution would be to build a circular...
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Plastics can be used more sustainably in agriculture
Plastics have become an integral component in agricultural production as mulch films, nets, storage bins and in many other applications, but their...
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Towards circular plastics within planetary boundaries
The rapid growth of plastics production exacerbated the triple planetary crisis of habitat loss, plastic pollution and greenhouse gas (GHG)...
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Testing of Plastics
Plastics belong to the category of materials which require special attention in terms of fire protection. Due to their increased use in construction,...
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Designing a circular carbon and plastics economy for a sustainable future
The linear production and consumption of plastics today is unsustainable. It creates large amounts of unnecessary and mismanaged waste, pollution and...
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Plastics: Photodegradations and Mechanisms
This book chapter, which focuses on the underlying mechanisms, offers a thorough description of the photodegradation of plastics and the subsequent...
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Dynamic crosslinking compatibilizes immiscible mixed plastics
The global plastics problem is a trifecta, greatly affecting environment, energy and climate
1 –4 . Many innovative closed/open-loop plastics recycling...
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A History of Plastics
Plastic-like materials have existed throughout history. Synthetic plastic saw much of its significant development during the second industrial...