1st Edition
by Johannes Karl Fink (Author)
With the huge amount of plastics
floating in the oceans, fish and other sea creatures are directly
suffering the consequences. On land, city leaders and planners are
banning one-use plastics as well as plastic bags from grocery stores in
an effort to stem the use. Many countries have made official
announcements and warnings concerning the pollution caused from plastic
wastes. These urgent developments have stimulated the author to study
the problem and write Polymer Waste Management.
Plastic
recycling refers to a method that retrieves the original plastic
material. However, there are many sophisticated methods available for
the treatment and management of waste plastics such as basic primary
recycling, where the materials are sorted and collected individually. In
chemical recycling, the monomers and related compounds are processed by
special chemical treatments. Other methods, such as pyrolysis, can
produce fuels from waste plastics. These methods and others are treated
comprehensively in the book
This ground-breaking book also discusses:
- General
aspects, such as amount of plastics production, types of waste
plastics, analysis procedures for identification of waste plastic types,
standards for waste treatment, contaminants in recycled plastics.
- Environmental aspects, such as pollution in the marine environment and landfills.
- The advantages of the use of bio-based plastics.
- Recycling methods for individual plastic types and special catalysts.
