Once referred to as 'materials of 1,000 uses', plastics meet demands in everything from clothing and automotive sectors to the manufacturing of medical equipment and electronics …
Our civilization relies on synthetic polymers for all aspects of modern life; yet, inefficient recycling and extremely slow environmental degradation of plastics are causing increasing …
JC Worch, AP Dove - ACS Macro Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
The current global materials economy has long been inefficient due to unproductive reuse and recycling efforts. Within the wider materials portfolio, plastics have been revolutionary to …
The use of plastics is closely associated with modern life. However, plastics are very slowly degraded in nature, and current recycling of used plastic materials is inefficient, which raises …
LO Mark, MC Cendejas, I Hermans - ChemSusChem, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plastic solid waste (PSW) is an ever‐growing environmental challenge for our society, as it not only ends up in landfills but also in waterways and oceans and is consequently entering …
The continuous increase in the generation of waste plastics together with the need for developing more sustainable waste management policies have promoted a great research …
ST Nguyen, EA McLoughlin, JH Cox… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The accumulation of persistent plastic waste in the environment is widely recognized as an ecological crisis. New chemical technologies are necessary both to recycle existing plastic …
Polymers have become an indispensable part of our daily lives, and today we produce around 370 MT of plastic per year. Only about 20% of it is being recycled, and the rest, 80 …
D Yao, H Yang, H Chen, PT Williams - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2018 - Elsevier
Catalytic steam reforming of waste high density polyethylene for the production of hydrogen/syngas has been investigated using different zeolite supported nickel catalysts in …