Plastics and Sustainability

Practical Approaches

Lee Tin Sin, Bee Soo Tueen
Elsevier
318 pages
ISBN: 9780128244890
November 2022

This book provides a broad overview of sustainability as applied to plastics, offering a range of opportunities and solutions to be applied in an academic or industrial setting. It begins by introducing the challenges and opportunities relating to plastics and environmental sustainability. Chapters explore various approaches to plastics sustainability, with in-depth coverage of incineration technology for energy recovery, pyrolysis for chemical recovery, blending technology, design, packaging, circular economy, and biopolymers. Finally, international policies are summarized.