Plastic Waste and Recycling
Environmental Impact, Societal Issues, Prevention, and Solutions
- 1st Edition - March 10, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Trevor Letcher
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 7 8 8 0 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 7 8 8 1 - 2
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Request a sales quotePlastic 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.
- 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
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
1. Introduction to plastic waste and recycling
Trevor M. Letcher
2. Production, use, and fate of synthetic polymers
Roland Geyer
3. The geography and geology of plastics: their environmental
distribution and fate
Sarah Gabbott, Sarah Key, Catherine Russell, Yasmin Yohan and
Jan Zalasiewicz
4. Biobased plastics
Stephan Kabasci
5. Biodegradable plastics
Maja Rujnic Havstad
6. Current industry position on plastic production and recycling
Edward Kosior and Jonathan Mitchell
7. Plastic waste in the terrestrial environment
Rachel Hurley, Alice Horton, Amy Lusher and Luca Nizzetto
8. The environmental impacts of plastic pollution
Natalie A. Welden
9. Microplastics: from origin to impacts
Natalie A. Welden and Amy Lusher
10. Textiles production and end-of-life management options
Andreas Bartl
11. Mechanical recycling of packaging waste
Alexander Feil and Thomas Pretz
12. Blast furnace feedstock and coke oven chemical feedstock
Seiji Nomura
13. Chemical routes for recyclingddissolving, catalytic, and
thermochemical technologies
Maija Pohjakallio and Tommi Vuorinen
14. Conversion of plastic waste to fuel
Mohanraj Chandran, Senthilkumar Tamilkolundu and
Chandrasekar Murugesan
15. The treatment of plastic in automobile shredder residue
Alfons Buekens and Trevor M. Letcher
16. Solutions to the plastic waste problem on land and in the
oceans
Edward Kosior and Irene Crescenzi
17. Plastics we cannot live without
Sharon George
18. Secondary plastic productsdexamples and market trends
Maija Pohjakallio
19. Plastic waste in a circular economy
John N. Hahladakis, Eleni Iacovidou and Spyridoula Gerassimidou
20. Ecological and health issues of plastic waste
Cayla R. Cook and Rolf U. Halden
21. Policy responses to plastic pollution in Asia: summary of a
regional gap analysis
Lewis Akenji, Magnus Bengtsson, Yasuhiko Hotta, Mizuki Kato and
Matthew Hengesbaugh
22. The challenge of plastic pollution in Nigeria
Emeka Dumbili and Lesley Henderson
23. Plastic waste in the United Kingdom
Libby Peake
24. 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
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 10, 2020
- No. of pages (Paperback): 686
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128178805
- eBook ISBN: 9780128178812
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Trevor Letcher
Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.
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Emeritus Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaRead Plastic Waste and Recycling on ScienceDirect