Plastic Waste Management: Methods and Applications [Hardcover]

Comprehensive resource on innovative and breakthrough developments in plastic waste management, covering a wide range of processing techniques and applications

Plastic Waste Management offers a complete guide to the best plastic waste management practices through recycling, incineration, landfill, and other processes, discusses applications of plastic waste management including energy generation, biochemical production, construction, and food packaging, covering current challenges relating to plastic waste, explaining the sources of waste and their routes into the environment, and providing systematic coverage of plastic waste treatment methods, including mechanical processing, monomerization, blast furnace feedstock, gasification, and thermal recycling.

The book also discusses different biodegradation mechanisms of plastic wastes and ecotoxicity and ecological Implications of marine plastic debris. From a cultural perspective, the book provides information regarding environmental and health implications, societal issues, and current challenges associated with plastic waste management.

Written by leading experts in the field and edited by two highly qualified academics, Plastic Waste Management covers specific sample topics such as:

• A a roadmap towards a circular economy and environmental sustainability via effective management strategies for plastic wastes
• Implementation of an analytical hierarchy process for developing better waste collection systems, and chemical recycling of plastic waste for sustainable development
• Mechanisms, perspectives, and challenges for natural biodegradation of plastic wastes, and conversion of plastic wastes into value added materials
• Plastic wastes management and disposal in developing countries, and challenges and strate