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 …

“Functional upcycling” of polymer waste towards the design of new materials

O Guselnikova, O Semyonov, E Sviridova… - Chemical Society …, 2023‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Diversification of polymer waste recycling is one of the solutions to improve the current
environmental scenario. Upcycling is a promising strategy for converting polymer waste into …

Rational design of chemical catalysis for plastic recycling

M Chu, Y Liu, X Lou, Q Zhang, J Chen - Acs Catalysis, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Plastics are indispensable, but their pollution is triggering a global environmental crisis.
Although many end-of-life catalytic options have involved converting plastics into valuable …

[HTML][HTML] Functional polymer materials for modern marine biofouling control

H Qiu, K Feng, A Gapeeva, K Meurisch, S Kaps… - Progress in Polymer …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Marine biofouling is a well-known massive problem: within the shortest time, ship hulls and
other man-made submerged surfaces are inevitably populated by various marine …

Resource saving by optimization and machining environments for sustainable manufacturing: A review and future prospects

DY Pimenov, M Mia, MK Gupta, ÁR Machado… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The most important aspect of sustainability in manufacturing is the preservation of energy
and natural resources. For modern production, optimized processes that minimize negative …

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 …

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 …

Current technologies for plastic waste treatment: A review

F Zhang, Y Zhao, D Wang, M Yan, J Zhang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Conventional nonbiodegradable plastic waste (NPW) treatment technologies include landfill
and incineration, which face bottlenecks and cannot solve NPW problems effectively …

MXene/polymer membranes: synthesis, properties, and emerging applications

L Gao, C Li, W Huang, S Mei, H Lin, Q Ou… - Chemistry of …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
2D transition metal carbides or nitrides, known as MXenes, are a new family of 2D materials
with close to 30 members experimentally synthesized and dozens more theoretically …

Recycling of polyurethanes: where we are and where we are going

G Rossignolo, G Malucelli, A Lorenzetti - Green Chemistry, 2024‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Polyurethanes (PUs) represent a family of useful synthetic polymers (thermoplastic or
thermosetting) obtained from diisocyanates and diols/polyols via polycondensation …