
Plastic Waste Valorization
Strategies to Tackle Plastic Waste Pollution for Sustainable Environment
- 1st Edition - January 1, 2026
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Riti Thapar Kapoor, Helen Treichel, Jakub Zdarta
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 1 6 3 0 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 1 6 3 1 - 6
Plastic Waste Valorization: Strategies to Tackle Plastic Waste Pollution for Sustainable Environment presents advanced approaches for mitigating the hazardous effects of plasti… Read more
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- Provides extensive information on the state-of-the-art application of environmentally benign approaches and various biological treatment technologies for the treatment of plastic contaminants and the restoration of contaminated sites
- Combines current knowledge with future strategies for integrated approaches, technological advancements and optimization strategies by using microbes or other bioremediation tools in enhancing process efficiency to effectively degrade plastic pollutants
- Aims to contribute significantly to achieving sustainable development goals by promoting carbon neutrality and reducing the overall cost of plastic waste management through innovative and sustainable practices
1. Plastic in the environment, properties, types and applications
2. Hazardous effects of plastic wastes on the ecosystem, human-beings and animal health
3. Microplastics in marine ecosystem: ecotoxicological effects, health consequences, and food chain implications
4. Unveiling the effects of microplastics in marine ecosystem, current trends in environmental pollution and mechanisms of toxicological profile
5. Microplastics in ocean, recent trends of environmental pollution and toxicological profile mechanism : An update
6. Mechanism of plastic biodegradation : A step towards environmental sustainability
7. Microbial enzymatic remediation of synthetic plastic pollutants: a present and future perspectives
8. Relevance of microbes in plastic waste degradation
9. Microplastics: ecological and human health risks
10. Bio-chemical degradation of microplastics, its mechanisms, and methodologies
11. Microalgae-bacteria consortium for microplastic biodegradation : A strategy towards plastic mitigation
12. Biodegradable microplastics in soil ecosystem: effects on soil properties, plant and animal health
13. Role of microbial enzymes in the degradation of plastics: A sustainable tool for waste management
14. Plastic wastes in air and soil : health risks and challenges to mitigate plastic pollutant
Section B: Valorization of plastic wastes into value-added products
15. Use of waste plastic in preparation of value-added construction materials
16. Valorization of plastic wastes: current practices, challenges and future directions
17. Bioplastics production, and applications in industries : a step towards circular economy
18. Plastic waste management: a review on life cycle assessment studies
19. An integrated approach towards sustainable plastic waste management : case study from urban areas of Indonesia/other developing nation
20. Plastic wastes and its management strategies for environmental sustainability
21. Plastic recycling: applications, challenges and future prospects
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 2026
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
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Riti Thapar Kapoor
Dr. Riti Thapar Kapoor is Associate Professor in Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India. Dr. Kapoor received her Ph.D from University of Allahabad and worked as post - doctoral fellow at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Dr. Kapoor has fourteen years of teaching and research experience and her area of specialization is environmental biotechnology, bioremediation, wastewater treatment and abiotic stresses. Dr. Kapoor has published 11 books and over 105 research papers in various journals of national and international repute. Dr. Kapoor has visited 8 countries for participation in different academic programmes. Dr. Kapoor has received prestigious travel award from Bill & Melinda Gates Research Foundation under CGIAR project for participation in International training programme held at International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Manila, Philippines in 2010. She is also recipient of DST travel grant for participation in International Conference held at Sri Lanka in 2013. Dr. Kapoor has been awarded with Teacher’s Research Fellowship from Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru in 2019. She has supervised and mentored a number of research projects sanctioned by different government funding agencies such as DAE, DST and UPCST etc. She has successfully supervised three research students for Ph.D. degree besides several (more than 80) masters and graduate students for their dissertation thesis.
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Helen Treichel
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