[HTML][HTML] The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on plastics and human health

PJ Landrigan, H Raps, M Cropper, C Bald… - Annals of Global …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Plastics have conveyed great benefits to humanity and made possible some of
the most significant advances of modern civilization in fields as diverse as medicine …

Transport fuel from waste plastics pyrolysis–A review on technologies, challenges and opportunities

MI Jahirul, MG Rasul, D Schaller, MMK Khan… - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite extensive research in recent years and great potential to help with energy and
waste management issues, thermochemical conversion technologies of mixed waste …

A global plastic treaty must cap production

M Bergmann, BC Almroth, SM Brander, T Dey… - Science, 2022 - science.org
We would like to retract the Report “Asymmetric remote C–H borylation of aliphatic amides
and esters with a modular iridium catalyst”(1) after discovering that the reported …

Why is recycling of postconsumer plastics so challenging?

BD Vogt, KK Stokes, SK Kumar - ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2021 - ACS Publications
The ubiquitous use of plastics has been driven by their combination of low cost and
properties, but these attributes directly challenge waste management schemes for plastic …

Designing a circular carbon and plastics economy for a sustainable future

F Vidal, ER van der Marel, RWF Kerr, C McElroy… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The linear production and consumption of plastics today is unsustainable. It creates large
amounts of unnecessary and mismanaged waste, pollution and carbon dioxide emissions …

[HTML][HTML] Recent insight into enzymatic degradation of plastics prevalent in the environment: A mini-review

J Kaushal, M Khatri, SK Arya - Cleaner Engineering and Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Plastic pollution has been prevalent in the world ever since its use in majority of the areas
including packaging, electronic industries, building and construction, healthcare …

Plastics and climate change—Breaking carbon lock-ins through three mitigation pathways

F Bauer, TD Nielsen, LJ Nilsson, E Palm, K Ericsson… - One Earth, 2022 - cell.com
The plastic industry is dependent on fossil fuels in various ways that result in strong" carbon
lock-in" throughout the value chain and large and growing CO 2 emissions. The industry …

Towards high-quality petrochemical feedstocks from mixed plastic packaging waste via advanced recycling: The past, present and future

M Kusenberg, A Eschenbacher, L Delva… - Fuel Processing …, 2022 - Elsevier
Advanced plastic waste recycling via pyrolysis and subsequent steam cracking of pyrolysis
oils has the potential to partly close the cycle between the petrochemical production of …

Plastics in the US: toward a material flow characterization of production, markets and end of life

MC Heller, MH Mazor, GA Keoleian - Environmental Research …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Managing plastics has become a focal issue of the Anthropocene. Developments in plastic
materials have made possible many of the technologies and conveniences that define our …