Recycling and Sustainability of Plastics
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Waste and Recycling".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 79940
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mechanical recycling of thermoplastics; structure–property relationships in polymers; predictive quality modelling of contaminated recycled plastics; design for recycling; design from recycling
Interests: solid waste management; recycling; sustainability; environmental performance; environmental science; plastics; separation and purification; organic waste; chemical engineering
Interests: reaction kinetics; computational chemistry; chemical reaction engineering; process engineering; chemical processes; energy engineering; modeling and simulation; process simulation; process optimization
Interests: design for a circular economy; circular plastics usage; product development; sustainable user experience; product lifetime extension; closing the loop; design from recycling; material identity
Interests: waste management and recycling; green organic/inorganic and circular polymeric materials; quantitative sustainability assessment
2. Department of Bioengineering, University of Antwerp, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium
Interests: persistent chemicals; sanitation; circular economy; waste management; transition management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The sustainability of plastics as a material is more than ever a relevant topic for scientists to work upon. Plastics are often misunderstood as an ‘unsustainable’ material because of the very real littering issue in which they feature. Nonetheless, society and environment are rightfully crying out for more and better solutions concerning the collection, sorting, and recycling of plastics. Circular Plastics as a concept requires thinking across the entire value chain as well as in many different fields of science: engineering, chemistry, waste management, consumer behavior, economy, and political sciences. Interdisciplinary problems require interdisciplinary answers. That is why, within the resource recovery platform CAPTURE, over a dozen scientists from different institutes have joined forces in the Plastics to Resource pipeline, working together to bring plastics to true circularity. Six of us are now inviting you to contribute scientific insights from your respective domains to this thematic Special Issue.
This Special Issue “Recycling and Sustainability of Plastics” welcomes papers on the scientific-technical side of the different pathways for recycling (mechanical, thermochemical, solvolysis) as well as logistics and pre-treatment but also material and product design for circularity, sustainability indicators, and holistic policy or macro-economic perspectives.
Prof. Dr. Kim Ragaert
Prof. Dr. Steven De Meester
Prof. Dr. Kevin M. Van Geem
Prof. Dr. Els Du Bois
Prof. Dr. Pieter Billen
Prof. Dr. Karl Vrancken
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mechanical recycling
- thermochemical recycling
- solvolysis
- sorting and pretreatment
- plastics value chains
- sustainability indicators
- design for/from recycling
- policy implications for plastics recycling
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