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Plastics and Sustainability
Practical Approaches
Discusses a range of approaches to plastics and sustainability, including eco-profiles, supply chain, waste, blending, recycling, and more
Lee Tin Sin (Author), Bee Soo Tueen (Author)
9780128244890, Elsevier Science
Paperback, published 23 November 2022
318 pages, 150 illustrations (40 in full color)
23.5 x 19 x 2.1 cm, 0.68 kg
Plastics and Sustainability: Practical Approaches provides a broad overview of sustainability as applied to plastics, offering a range of opportunities and solutions to be applied in an academic or industrial setting. The book begins by introducing the challenges and opportunities relating to plastics and environmental sustainability. This is followed by detailed eco-profiles organized by polymer category. Subsequent chapters explore various approaches to plastics sustainability, with in-depth coverage of incineration technology for energy recovery, pyrolysis for chemical recovery, blending technology, design, packaging, circular economy, and biopolymers. Finally, international policies are summarized. The book aims to provide a broad source of information and a range of options to readers on how to evaluate and improve the sustainability of plastics, with analyses of the advantages and drawbacks of different technologies and materials. Authored by two professional engineers with substantial experience in industry and consultancy, this is a valuable resource for all those looking for a wide-ranging overview of sustainability as applied to plastics, including researchers and advanced students from a range of materials science and engineering disciplines, and engineers, manufacturers, scientists, and R&D professionals from a range of industries.
1. Plastics and environmental sustainability issues 2. Eco-profile of plastics 3. Plastic wastes and opportunities 4. Blending technology to improve eco-friendliness of plastics 5. Effective plastic design and packaging 6. Recycling and circular economy of plastics 7. Biopolymers and challenges 8. International policies of plastic usages and consumption
Subject Areas: Waste treatment & disposal [TQSR], Environmental science, engineering & technology [TQ], Materials science [TGM], Plastics & polymers technology [TDCP], Physical chemistry [PNR]
