Digital technologies hold enormous potential for improving the performance of future-
generation sorting and processing plants; however, this potential remains largely untapped …

Today, plastics are ubiquitous in everyday life, problem solvers of modern technologies, and
crucial for sustainable development. Yet the surge in global demand for plastics of the …

Blockchain-integrated waste management and circular economy are emergent concepts that
target minimising waste generation and fluctuations of resource commodity. Blockchain can …

Expanding the curbside collection system for household plastic packaging could help in
accomplishing the ambitious recycling targets set by the European Union. In this study, the …

Following the circular economy hierarchy of reduce and reuse, recycling is the third layer to
close the loops for materials and decouple their value from consumption. Polymeric …

This study aims at defining the current state-of-affairs of the German post-consumer plastic
packaging (PCPP) sector. By the use of the Material Flow Analysis (MFA) tool, a …

The implementation and assessment of sustainable initiatives at sport events has a great
importance for researchers and practitioners to improve the effects on the hosting territory …

To improve the recycling quality of plastics packaging and achieve high recycling rates new
identification and sorting technologies are required. Tracer-based-sorting (TBS) is an …

Abstract (Sub) micrometer‐scaled identification (ID) taggants enable direct identification of
arbitrary goods, thereby opening up application fields based on the possibility of tracking …

This study explores the implications of plastic waste and recycling management on
recyclates for manufacturing clean-energy harvesting devices. The focus is on a …