Plastic Waste and Recycling

Environmental Impact, Societal Issues, Prevention, and Solutions

Letcher
Elsevier S&T
686 pages
ISBN-13: 9780128178805
March 2020

Plastic Waste and Recycling: Environmental Impact, Societal Issues, Prevention, and Solutions begins with an introduction to the different types of plastic materials, their uses, and the concepts of reduce, reuse and recycle before examining plastic types, chemistry and degradation patterns that are organized by non-degradable plastic, degradable and biodegradable plastics, biopolymers and bioplastics.