{"product_id":"plastic-waste-and-recycling-environmental-impact-societal-issues-prevention-and-solutions-paperback-9780128178805","title":"Plastic Waste and Recycling; Environmental Impact, Societal Issues, Prevention, and Solutions (Paperback) 9780128178805","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePlastic Waste and Recycling\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEnvironmental Impact, Societal Issues, Prevention, and Solutions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cp\u003eA comprehensive guide to plastic waste and recycling, empowering the reader to understand, develop, and implement the latest treatment and prevention methods\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTrevor Letcher (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780128178805, Elsevier Science\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 12 March 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e686 pages, 300 illustrations (100 in full color)\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.1 x 4.2 cm, 1.21 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlastic Waste and Recycling: Environmental Impact, Societal Issues, Prevention, and Solutions\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction to plastic waste and recycling  \u003ci\u003eTrevor M. Letcher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Production, use, and fate of synthetic polymers \u003ci\u003eRoland Geyer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The geography and geology of plastics: their environmental distribution and fate \u003ci\u003eSarah Gabbott, Sarah Key, Catherine Russell, Yasmin Yohan and Jan Zalasiewicz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Biobased plastics \u003ci\u003eStephan Kabasci\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Biodegradable plastics \u003ci\u003eMaja Rujnic Havstad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Current industry position on plastic production and recycling \u003ci\u003eEdward Kosior and Jonathan Mitchell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Plastic waste in the terrestrial environment \u003ci\u003eRachel Hurley, Alice Horton, Amy Lusher and Luca Nizzetto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The environmental impacts of plastic pollution \u003ci\u003eNatalie A. Welden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Microplastics: from origin to impacts \u003ci\u003eNatalie A. Welden and Amy Lusher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Textiles production and end-of-life management options \u003ci\u003eAndreas Bartl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Mechanical recycling of packaging waste \u003ci\u003eAlexander Feil and Thomas Pretz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Blast furnace feedstock and coke oven chemical feedstock \u003ci\u003eSeiji Nomura\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Chemical routes for recyclingddissolving, catalytic, and thermochemical technologies \u003ci\u003eMaija Pohjakallio and Tommi Vuorinen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Conversion of plastic waste to fuel \u003ci\u003eMohanraj Chandran, Senthilkumar Tamilkolundu and Chandrasekar Murugesan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. The treatment of plastic in automobile shredder residue \u003ci\u003eAlfons Buekens and Trevor M. Letcher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Solutions to the plastic waste problem on land and in the oceans \u003ci\u003eEdward Kosior and Irene Crescenzi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Plastics we cannot live without \u003ci\u003eSharon George\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Secondary plastic productsdexamples and market trends \u003ci\u003eMaija Pohjakallio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Plastic waste in a circular economy \u003ci\u003eJohn N. Hahladakis, Eleni Iacovidou and Spyridoula Gerassimidou\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. Ecological and health issues of plastic waste \u003ci\u003eCayla R. Cook and Rolf U. Halden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. Policy responses to plastic pollution in Asia: summary of a regional gap analysis \u003ci\u003eLewis Akenji, Magnus Bengtsson, Yasuhiko Hotta, Mizuki Kato and Matthew Hengesbaugh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. The challenge of plastic pollution in Nigeria \u003ci\u003eEmeka Dumbili and Lesley Henderson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. Plastic waste in the United Kingdom \u003ci\u003eLibby Peake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. 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