Circularity of Plastics

Sustainability, Emerging Materials, and Valorization of Waste Plastic

Zibiao Li, Jason Y.C. Lim, Chen-Gang Wang

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780323911986
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323914352
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Industrial & Technical Chemistry
• Index: Technology & Engineering

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. - Explains the fundamental concepts of sustainable materials, circular economy, lifecycle assessment, and valorization of plastic waste - Presents cutting-edge methods for the conversion or upcycling of waste to sustainable polymers, fuel and fine chemicals, and carbon nanomaterials - Provides detailed coverage of the development of functional polymers from a range of sustainable and renewable resources

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contributors
• Editor’s biographies
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1 : Sustainable material management for a circular plastics economy
• Chapter 2 : Sustainable chemical recycling of plastic waste
• Chapter 3 : Converting plastic waste to fuel and fine chemicals
• Chapter 4 : Upcycling of waste plastics to carbon nanomaterials
• Chapter 5 : Functional polymers from CO2 as feedstock
• Chapter 6 : Functional polymers from biomass-based monomers
• Chapter 7 : New functional materials from lignocellulosic biomass
• Chapter 8 : Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) as a building block for a circular economy
• Chapter 9 : Poly(hydroxyalkanoates) (PHAs) based circular materials for a sustainable future
• Chapter 10 : Sustainable materials applications: Current challenges and future perspectives
• Index
• A