Plastics pollution is causing an environmental crisis, prompting the development of new approaches for recycling, and upcycling. Here, we review challenges and opportunities in …
Y Peng, Y Wang, L Ke, L Dai, Q Wu, K Cobb… - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the continuous increase of plastic wastes and the decrease of fossil energy, pyrolysis has emerged as a promising technology for the valorization of plastic wastes to produce …
Chemical recycling of solid plastic waste (SPW) is a paramount opportunity to reduce marine and land pollution and to enable the incorporation of the circular economy principle in …
Single-use plastics impose an enormous environmental threat, but their recycling, especially of polyolefins, has been proven challenging. We report a direct method to selectively convert …
W Tian, P Song, H Zhang, X Duan, Y Wei… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Plastics are widely used in our daily life; however, poor management and disposal result in their ubiquity throughout the biosphere. Increased accumulation of microplastic (MP) or even …
Z Wang, KG Burra, T Lei, AK Gupta - Progress in Energy and Combustion …, 2021 - Elsevier
The amount of plastics disposed from modern lifestyles have increased sharply in recent years. Solid biomass is an abundant energy resource that exists worldwide. Transformation …
Despite extensive research in recent years and great potential to help with energy and waste management issues, thermochemical conversion technologies of mixed waste …
X Jie, W Li, D Slocombe, Y Gao, I Banerjee… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The ubiquitous challenge of plastic waste has led to the modern descriptor plastisphere to represent the human-made plastic environment and ecosystem. Here we report a …
Summary Approximately 80% of the> 350 Mt of plastics produced annually is turned into waste, which equals 30% of the European electricity consumption. Chemocatalytic …