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Focusing plastic solutions up the waste hierarchy: Pathways for a more circular economy

iScience
SUMMARY: Plastic pollution requires urgent global action, including continued Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. A systems change approach is essential, with growing momentum for a plastics circular economy that emphasizes recycling and bio-based ...
Kathryn A. Willis, Murray Richards, Britta Denise Hardesty   +2 more
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Strategies and technologies for sustainable plastic waste treatment and recycling

Environmental Functional Materials
Discarded plastics in natural environments contribute significantly to “white pollution” due to their high persistence and potential for bioaccumulation.
Kai Qian, Lu Wang, Jie Teng, Guoshuai Liu   +3 more
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Recent Developments in Technology for Sorting Plastic for Recycling: The Emergence of Artificial Intelligence and the Rise of the Robots

Recycling
Plastics recycling is an important component of the circular economy. In mechanical recycling, the recovery of high-quality plastics for subsequent reprocessing requires plastic waste to be first sorted by type, color, and size.
Cesar Lubongo, Mohammed A. A. Bin Daej, Paschalis Alexandridis   +2 more
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Migration, transformation and release of pollutants during pyrolysis of the waste electronic plastics

能源环境保护
Due to the increasing amount of waste electronic plastics and electrical equipment (WEEE), waste electronic plastics, which contain brominated flame retardants (BFR) materials, have become one of the emerging and fastest-growing waste streams and a major
LIU Wujun
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Anthropocene Ouroboros

Worldwide Waste
The ever-increasing abundance and expanding affordances of plastics have come to instantiate modernity through their successes and failures in usage and beyond.
Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko
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Advances in Biodegradable Plastic Production: Exploring Strategies and Technologies using Renewable Resources

Chemical Engineering Transactions
Plastic pollution has escalated to critical levels, threatening terrestrial and marine ecosystems due to their persistent and non-degradable nature. Recent global initiatives, such as the UNEA resolutions advocating a legally binding treaty to address ...
Gamille Marie V. Silva, Alijaeh Joshua A. Go, Ralph Emmanuel M. Manlulu, Jose Antonio R. Calero, Kathleen B. Aviso, Angelo Earvin S. Choi   +5 more
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Recycling of Flexible Plastic Films: Emergent Technologies. [PDF]

Polymers (Basel)
Licht JS, Tsianou M, Alexandridis P.
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Plastics and Bioplastics End of Life: A Biocatalytic Perspective. [PDF]

Microb Biotechnol
de Eugenio LI, Pardo I, Prieto MA.
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Recent advances in designing high-performance and enzymatically degradable plastics. [PDF]

Chem Sci
Liu J, Zhou X, Uyama H, Takashima Y.
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A universal photothermal recycling strategy for post-consumer plastics using bio-derived porous carbon. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Jang YJ, Wani MS, Jiang H, Oblinsky DG, Arnold CB, Stache EE.   +5 more
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