Circularity of Plastics
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Circularity of Plastics

Sustainability, Emerging Materials, and Valorization of Waste Plastic

  1. 342 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Circularity of Plastics

Sustainability, Emerging Materials, and Valorization of Waste Plastic

About this book

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

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Yes, you can access Circularity of Plastics by Zibiao Li,Jason Y.C. Lim,Chen-Gang Wang in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Environmental Management. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

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