A review on catalytic pyrolysis of plastic wastes to high-value products

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 …

Bioplastic from renewable biomass: a facile solution for a greener environment

G Coppola, MT Gaudio, CG Lopresto, V Calabro… - Earth systems and …, 2021 - Springer
Environmental pollutions are increasing day by day due to more plastic application. The
plastic material is going in our food chain as well as the environment employing microplastic …

Face mask waste generation and management during the COVID-19 pandemic: An overview and the Peruvian case

FG Torres, GE De-la-Torre - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has driven massive consumption of personal protective
equipment (PPE) worldwide. Single-use face masks are one of the most used PPE to …

Chemical recycling of plastic waste via thermocatalytic routes

J Lee, EE Kwon, SS Lam, WH Chen, J Rinklebe… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Plastic wastes in the time of COVID-19: Their environmental hazards and implications for sustainable energy resilience and circular bio-economies

PK Rai, C Sonne, H Song, KH Kim - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
The global scope of pollution from plastic waste is a well-known phenomenon associated
with trade, mass consumption, and disposal of plastic products (eg, personal protective …

[HTML][HTML] Life cycle assessment of plastic waste and energy recovery

A Vlasopoulos, J Malinauskaite, A Żabnieńska-Góra… - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Plastics are essential in our economy and everyday life. However, plastic pollution is a
global concern. To address this issue, the European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular …

Life cycle assessment to tackle the take-make-waste paradigm in the textiles production

V Amicarelli, C Bux, MP Spinelli, G Lagioia - Waste Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Under the environmental perspective, textiles represent the fourth highest pressure
commodity worldwide. In Europe, it is estimated that over 95 Mt of textile waste are …

A review on modern and smart technologies for efficient waste disposal and management

AG Mukherjee, UR Wanjari, R Chakraborty… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the current scenario, the word waste management holds much importance in every
individual's life. Pollution and the generation of vast waste quantities with no proper waste …

Conversion of waste plastic packings to carbon nanomaterials: investigation into catalyst material, waste type, and product applications

D Yao, H Li, BC Mohan, AK Prabhakar… - ACS Sustainable …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Waste plastics collected from local food courts were catalytically pyrolyzed and decomposed
to produce carbon nanomaterials (CNMs) as well as hydrogen-rich gases as byproducts in …

Is photocatalytic hydrogen production sustainable?–Assessing the potential environmental enhancement of photocatalytic technology against steam methane …

VBY Oh, SF Ng, WJ Ong - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
In the face of the burgeoning interests toward the utilization of nanomaterials in catalyzing
solar-aided chemical processes, the doubts upon the capability of these emerging low-TRL …