Beyond mechanical recycling: giving new life to plastic waste

I Vollmer, MJF Jenks, MCP Roelands… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing the stream of recycled plastic necessitates an approach beyond the traditional
recycling via melting and re‐extrusion. Various chemical recycling processes have great …

A unified view on catalytic conversion of biomass and waste plastics

K Lee, Y **g, Y Wang, N Yan - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Originating from the desire to improve sustainability, producing fuels and chemicals from the
conversion of biomass and waste plastic has become an important research topic in the …

Chemolytic depolymerisation of PET: a review

E Barnard, JJR Arias, W Thielemans - Green Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Develo** new, alternative ways to recycle plastics is an important and pressing challenge
for industry and academy, given its significant impact on CO2 emissions as well as …

Microplastic materials in the environment: Problem and strategical solutions

W Tian, P Song, H Zhang, X Duan, Y Wei… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Plastics are widely used in our daily life; however, poor management and disposal result in
their ubiquity throughout the biosphere. Increased accumulation of microplastic (MP) or even …

Catalytic processing of plastic waste on the rise

AJ Martín, C Mondelli, SD Jaydev, J Pérez-Ramírez - Chem, 2021 - cell.com
Summary Approximately 80% of the> 350 Mt of plastics produced annually is turned into
waste, which equals 30% of the European electricity consumption. Chemocatalytic …

Catalytic methods for chemical recycling or upcycling of commercial polymers

SC Kosloski-Oh, ZA Wood, Y Manjarrez… - Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymers (plastics) have transformed our lives by providing access to inexpensive and
versatile materials with a variety of useful properties. While polymers have improved our …

Waste to wealth: chemical recycling and chemical upcycling of waste plastics for a great future

H Chen, K Wan, Y Zhang, Y Wang - ChemSusChem, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The linear approach to resource utilization has led to the accumulation of waste plastic in the
environment for decades. Unfortunately, both traditional mechanical recycling and …

Recent advances in chemical recycling of polyethylene terephthalate waste into value added products for sustainable coating solutions–hope vs. hype

K Ghosal, C Nayak - Materials Advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In the current era of globalization, plastics are an indispensable part of our daily life; from our
morning toothbrush to night dinner table, plastics are everywhere in our daily life. In such a …

Recycling of bioplastics: routes and benefits

FM Lamberti, LA Román-Ramírez, J Wood - Journal of Polymers and the …, 2020 - Springer
Continual reduction of landfill space along with rising CO 2 levels and environmental
pollution, are global issues that will only grow with time if not correctly addressed. The lack …

Current developments in chemical recycling of post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate wastes for new materials production: A review

AB Raheem, ZZ Noor, A Hassan, MK Abd Hamid… - Journal of cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper appraised divergent chemical depolymerization routes for reprocessing
chemically synthesis polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastics bottle waste and offer …