Plastic waste management and recycling became a serious global issue as it affects living
beings from all the ecosystems. Researchers investigated biodegradation of polyethylene …

Biodegradation is considered to take place throughout three stages: biodeterioration,
biofragmentation and assimilation, without neglect the participation of abiotic factors …

A classic text in the field of chemical engineering, this revised sixth edition offers a
comprehensive exploration of polymers at a level geared toward upper-level …

This paper reviews recent developments in plastics cracking, a process developed to
recycle plastic wastes into useful petrochemical materials. Under thermal cracking …

Exploring the chemistry of synthesis, mechanisms of polymerization, reaction engineering of
step-growth and chain-growth polymerization, polymer characterization, thermodynamics …

The efficiency of four different compatibilizers melt-mixed with a poly (ethylene
terephthalate)/high density polyethylene (PET/HDPE) blend was investigated. The …

It was found that strongly alkaline solutions of sodium hydroxide are able to destroy the
hydrophobicity of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) whereas the hydrophobicity of polyvinyl …

In order to verify the possibility of manufacturing good quality articles by recycled
polypropylene (PP), a study on the effect of many recycling operations on the rheological …

The degradation of plastic waste can be facilitated by a process in which polymers react with
nitrogen oxides and dioxygen under relatively mild conditions. Polystyrene generates a …

The pyrolysis of plastic waste, scrap tires and other polymeric materials in a fluidized bed
has been carried out based on a scale up program (laboratory plants 70 g/h, 500 g/h, 3000 …