The current global plastics economy is highly linear, with the exceptional performance and
low carbon footprint of polymeric materials at odds with dramatic increases in plastic waste …

Presently, environmental problems and regulations have caused awareness to producer
liability concerning plastics recycling as they try to meet global demand. Process-induced …

Recycling mixed polyolefin plastics is a significant challenge due to the limitations in sorting
and degraded mechanical properties of blends. Nonreactive compatibilization by adding a …

Plastics are highly versatile materials, which can substantially vary in their properties, within
a single polymer type, to cope with the range of different applications. Sorted bales of end-of …

Synthetic manipulation of polymer substrates is one of the oldest and most reliable methods
to increase the functional diversity of soft materials. Modifying the chemical structure of …

Blends of polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) have always been the subject of
intense reasearch for encouraging polymer waste recycling while producing new materials …

A series of isotactic polypropylene (i PP) and polyethylene (PE) diblock, tetrablock, and
hexablock copolymers (BCPs) were synthesized with tunable molecular weights using a …

Abstract Polypropylene (PP) and Polyethylene (PE) are widely used commodity plastics in
packaging industry such as detergent bottles. To produce plastic detergent bottles, very …

The mixing of polymers, even structurally similar polyolefins, inevitably leads to blend
systems with a phase-separated morphology. Fundamentally understanding the changes in …

This paper provides evidence and discusses the variability in the thermomechanical
behaviour of virgin and recycled polypropylene/high-density polyethylene blends without the …