Polymer waste management

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 a...

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Main Author Fink, Johannes Karl (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Hoboken, NJ : Beverly, MA : John Wiley & Sons ; Scrivener Publishing, 2018.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781119536390
1119536391
9781119536376
1119536375
9781523121540
1523121548
9781119536383
1119536383
9781119536086
1119536081
Physical Description1 online resource (xii, 347 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1 General Aspects; 1.1 History of the Literature; 1.2 Amount of Wastes; 1.3 Metal Content in Wastes; 1.3.1 Waste Poly(ethylene) and Pure High Density Poly(ethylene); 1.4 Analysis Procedures; 1.4.1 Fluorescence Labeling; 1.4.2 Time-Gated Fluorescence Spectroscopy; 1.4.3 Content of Flame Retardants; 1.4.4 Identifi cation of Black Plastics; 1.4.5 Raman Spectroscopy; 1.4.6 Life Cycle Assessment; 1.4.7 Analysis of Contaminated Mixed Waste Plastics; 1.4.8 Construction and Household Plastic Waste.
  • 1.4.9 Models for Forecasting the Composition of Waste Materials1.5 Standards; 1.5.1 Circular Economy Package; 1.5.2 SPI Codes; 1.5.3 Test Samples for Biodegradation; 1.5.4 Mixed Municipal Waste; 1.5.5 Aerobic Composting; 1.5.6 Contaminants in Recycled Plastics; 1.6 Special Problems with Plastics; 1.6.1 Stability of Plastics; 1.6.2 Additives; 1.6.3 Plastics in Food; 1.6.4 Seawater; 1.6.5 Landfill; 1.6.6 Electronic Waste; References; 2 Environmental Aspects; 2.1 Pollution of the Marine Environment; 2.1.1 Pathways of Plastics into the Marine Environment.
  • 2.1.2 Deleterious Effects on the Marine Environment2.1.3 Reports Concerning Special Locations; 2.1.4 Analysis Methods; 2.1.5 Plastic Preproduction Pellets; 2.1.6 Leaching of Plastics; 2.1.7 Micro-plastics; 2.1.8 Marine Animals; 2.2 Pollution of the Terrestrial Environment; 2.2.1 Waste Generation; 2.2.2 Disposal in Landfills; 2.2.3 Plastic Materials for Packaging; References; 3 Recycling Methods; 3.1 Alternative Plastic Materials; 3.2 Mechanical Recycling; 3.2.1 Poly(lactic acid); 3.2.2 Nanocellulose Coated Poly(ethylene) Films; 3.2.3 Electric Uses; 3.3 Primary Recycling.
  • 3.4 Renewable Polymer Synthesis3.4.1 Natural Solvents for Expanded Poly(styrene); 3.4.2 Landfill Methane Recycling; 3.4.3 Anaerobic Landfill; 3.4.4 Simulated Semi-aerobic Landfill; 3.5 Preparation and Regeneration of Catalysts; 3.5.1 Reuse of ZSM-5 Zeolite; 3.5.2 Modifi cation of Zeolites; 3.6 Pyrolysis Methods; 3.6.1 Fluidized-Bed Reactor; 3.7 Metallized Plastics Waste; 3.7.1 Rotary Kiln Pyrolysis; 3.8 Mixed Plastics; 3.8.1 Grinding and Cleaning; 3.8.2 Reductant in Ironmaking; 3.9 Separation Processes; 3.9.1 Automated Sorting of Waste; 3.9.2 Sorting According to Density.
  • 3.9.3 Hydrocyclonic Separation of Waste Plastics3.9.4 Froth Flotation; 3.10 Triboelectrostatic Separation; 3.11 Wet Gravity Separation; 3.11.1 Selective Dissolution/Precipitation Technique for Polymer Recycling; 3.12 Supercritical Water; 3.13 Solvent Treatment; References; 4 Recovery of Monomers; 4.1 Process for Obtaining a Polymerizable Monomer; 4.2 Pyrolysis in Carrier Gas; 4.3 Fluidized Bed Method; 4.4 Recovery of Monomers from Waste Gas Streams; 4.5 Polyolefins; 4.6 Poly(styrene); 4.6.1 Methods with Supercritical Materials; 4.6.2 Volcanic Tuff and Florisil Catalysts.