[HTML][HTML] Co-pyrolysis of biomass and plastic: Circularity of wastes and comprehensive review of synergistic mechanism

CC Seah, CH Tan, NA Arifin, R Hafriz, A Salmiaton… - Results in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Fossil fuels have provided humans with an enormous and stable primary energy source to
rapidly develop advanced technologies, increasingly efficient machines and industries, as …

A review of plastic pollution and their treatment technology: A circular economy platform by thermochemical pathway

G Kwon, DW Cho, J Park, A Bhatnagar… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The rapid expansion of plastic manufacturing industries in last several decades has brought
serious concerns over the environmental impacts of plastic wastes. Recent outbreak of …

Sustainability analysis of digital transformation and circular industrialization with quantum spherical fuzzy modeling and golden cuts

S Yüksel, H Dinçer - Applied Soft Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study is to identify the most essential criteria necessary for cyclical
production and digital transformation in countries. First, eight factors are weighted by …

Pyrolysis for plastic waste management: An engineering perspective

T Xayachak, N Haque, R Parthasarathy, S King… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The pervasion of plastic and the inadequacies of the current plastic waste management
processes are the premise of various studies that aimed to find sustainable solutions to the …

Plastic wastes in the time of COVID-19: Their environmental hazards and implications for sustainable energy resilience and circular bio-economies

PK Rai, C Sonne, H Song, KH Kim - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
The global scope of pollution from plastic waste is a well-known phenomenon associated
with trade, mass consumption, and disposal of plastic products (eg, personal protective …

The world of plastic waste: a review

PGCNT Pilapitiya, AS Ratnayake - Cleaner Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
People discover various materials from time to time that break the boundaries of traditional
materials. Plastic is a revolutionized material, and is referred to as “a material with 1,000 …

[HTML][HTML] Review and recommendations for sustainable pathways of recycling commodity plastic waste across different economic regions

C Darko, PWS Yung, A Chen, A Acquaye - Resources, Environment and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Commodity plastics such as polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene
terephthalate (PET) are some of the common plastic wastes found in municipal wastes. Lack …

[HTML][HTML] Retrieving back plastic wastes for conversion to value added petrochemicals: opportunities, challenges and outlooks

M Kumar, S Bolan, LP Padhye, M Konarova, SY Foong… - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Plastic production and its unplanned management and disposal, has been shown to pollute
terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric environments. Petroleum-derived plastics do not …

Biodegradability of polyethylene by efficient bacteria from the guts of plastic-eating waxworms and investigation of its degradation mechanism

SS Ali, T Elsamahy, D Zhu, J Sun - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Polyethylene (PE) has been regarded as non-biodegradable for decades, and the evidence
for its degradation by bacteria remains unclear in the literature. Waxworms have recently …

Chemical recycling of plastic waste as a mean to implement the circular economy model in the European Union

J Kubiczek, W Derej, B Hadasik… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Contemporary concepts of economic development in the European Union (EU)
progressively focus on environmental protection. At the stage of their implementation by the …