Circulatory Management of Polymer Waste
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Circular and Green Polymer Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2022) | Viewed by 3092
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Polymer materials are omnipresent in our daily life. By introducing circularity for these materials, we not only provide a solution for the polymer waste problem, but we also reduce their dependency on fossil resources and lower their environmental footprint.
To manage polymer circularity, multidisciplinary research is needed. This Special Issue welcomes papers (research articles, reviews, or communications) dealing with experimental or/and theoretical research on polymer recycling and design for recycling. Suggested topics include but are not limited to polymer waste collection, separation and pre-treatment, chemical and mechanical recycling, reactor/process design, life cycle assessment and costing, novel polymer materials that are more suited for recycling, and applications and properties of recycled polymers.
Dr. Yoshi W. Marien
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polymer waste management
- polymer waste sorting
- chemical recycling
- mechanical recycling
- (multiscale) modeling of recycling processes
- experimental investigation of recycling processes
- eco-design, design for recycling
- circular value chains
- applications of recycled polymers
- life cycle analysis
