It is a global publication which provides insight into companies current projects, industry trends and strategies. The charity recently published a series of case studies to help plastic manufacturers and designers make their packaging more recyclable. Much of the worlds electronic junk ends up choking landfills in developing countries. The journal emphasizes the transformation processes involved in a. Citescore values are based on citation counts in a given year e. The sources below should give a solid background to help you understand recycling of pet plastics. The material politics of plastic edited by jennifer gabrys, gay hawkins and mike michael 2014. This readership is 10 times more when compared to other subscription journals source. New materials and more recycling, along with simply avoiding unnecessary uses of the stuff, are the longterm solutions to the plastic waste problem. Methods of recycling, properties and applications of. Outside the fields of expertise, generally little is known about either plastics or their recyclability. This article is is licensed under a creative commons attributionnoncommercial 4.
Use and reuse plastic as long as you can, then get creative and reuse it for something else. You sort your recycling, leave it to be collected and then what. A study on the plastic waste and environmental degradation. Paper recycling waste and recycling journals and magazines. Pet plastic bottles engineering intermediate subject. The current use of plastics follows a linear model, whereby plastics are prepared, used, and disposed, and this is especially true, as well as problematic, for singleuse plastics 10, 11. Open access free for readers, with article processing charges apc paid by authors or their institutions. It is published 6 times a year march, april, june, july, september and october. Jun 25, 2019 recycling plastic takes 88% less energy than producing plastics from new raw materials. Informative articles about stateoftheart recyclingtechnology will be written by researchers and scientists from. Products that are recycled in large quantities include paper and paperboard, ferrous metals, aluminum and other nonferrous metals, glass, plastics, and yard wastes. However, this is still a very novel approach and currently is only used in a.
Analyzing in nontechnical language the incentives for and barriers to recycling, this new work examines a broad range of topics, including. This new plastic can be endlessly recycled smart news. Plastics account for 10% of total global waste generation. Currently, around 50% of plastics we use are thrown away just after a single use. It offers updates on the latest equipment and technology, details trends in the recovered resin marketplace, and covers all the other critical industry news. In the 1980s the plastics industry led an influential drive encouraging municipalities to collect and process recyclable materials as part of their wastemanagement systems. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. Originally, household containers such as beverage cans and bottles were recycled as a matter of course, with a glass beer container or milk bottle being refilled as many as 30 times. Instead we should record, reduce, replace, refuse, refill, rethink and reuse. It provides an international online forum for studies related to recycling, resource recovery and waste. Oct 09, 2014 recycling plastics poses major logistical difficulties, including effective sorting which increases costs and the mixing of different plastic streams affecting the resultant postconsumer products. In 2008, 34 million tons of plastic was disposed in the united states. As in the successful first edition, this book provides straightforward information on plastic materials and technology, including the options for recycling plastics, with special focus on mechanical recycling.
And yet recycling is the best solution for processing plastic waste because it. The history and future of plastics what are plastics, and. The quarterly print edition of plastics recycling update magazine is the premier trade journal for plastics recycling experts. The editors welcome contributions from research, which consider sustainable management and conservation of resources. Plastics engineering features indepth articles about innovations that impact plastics professionals across disciplines.
Conversely, there is limited recycling of multilayermulticomponent articles. It was the plastics industry that offered recycling as a solution. Learn how to recycle right with our tips, bust popular recycling myths, and become an expert recycler. This book is intended for all those who are interested in recycling of post consumer plastic waste. The potential benefits of mixed plastics recycling in terms of resource efficiency, diversion from landfill and emission savings, are very high when one considers the fact that in the uk it is estimated that there is over one million tonne per annum of nonbottle plastic packaging wrap 2008a in comparison with 525 000 tonnes of plastic bottle. In particular for mixed plastics, which are basically based on petroleum, a thermal recovery might be the better option than recycling if the recycling process consumes more energy that is necessary for producing new materials rajendran et al. Water engineering australia is a new communication service for all engineers involved in the water industry.
The individual consumer plays a large part in recycling. This book explores the vitality and complexity of plastic. But ewaste recycling is a growth market, as countries around the world move to make manufacturers more. Presorting of plastics before recycling is costly and time. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. Plastics recycling update magazine plastics recycling update. Recycling about mdpi publisher of open access journals. It provides an international online forum for studies related to recycling, resource recovery and waste utilisation across many. Jul 27, 2009 effective recycling of mixed plastics waste is the next major challenge for the plastics recycling sector. Recycling of used plastics recoup is a charity which aims to promote, develop and increase the amount of plastic being recycled in the uk. Mechanical and chemical recycling of solid plastic waste. Annual magazine dedicated to coverage of new and existing technologies for the global recycling industries. In the us we recycle only 9% of the plastic we use. Resource recycling print edition feature stories are available online one month after the issue is sent to subscribers.
The plastics that end up in the oceans break down into small pieces. The advantage is the ability to recycle a larger proportion of the plastic waste stream by expanding postconsumer collection of plastic packaging to cover a wider variety of materials and pack types. Plastic recycling and the plastic recycling process. Plastics recycling waste and recycling journals and. Most plastics were never made to be recycled, peter christensen at the berkeley lab and lead author of the new study in nature chemistry says in a press release. A plan for reinvigoration, by matt naud, matt fletcher and elisa seltzer.
A worker in wuhan, china, carries a bin of plastic bottles. Pmc homejournal listphilos trans r soc lond b biol sciv. Its an interdisciplinary collection focused on how the presence and recalcitrance of plastic reveals the relational exchanges across human and synthetic materialities. However, numerous practical challenges of plastics recycling exist including. Environment journal spoke to recoups chief executive, stuart foster, about the organisation and how the plastics industry is working to ensure more packaging is recycled. This is an article distributed under the terms of the science journals.
This book discusses some of the stateoftheart techniques of recycling postconsumer plastic materials and focuses on mechanical recycling, chemical recycling and energy recovery. Scrap is the bimonthly magazine of the institute of scrap recycling industries isri, a washington, d. However, recycling is far from perfect, and most plastics still end up in landfills or in the environment. The first of the books four sections represents a basic introduction to the key subject matter of plastics and the environment. Waste and recycling journals and magazines environmental.
But although there are important economic and environmental incentives for plastics recycling, endoflife treatment options for plastic solid waste are in practice quite limited. Nov 17, 2017 the environmental consequences of plastic solid waste are visible in the everincreasing levels of global plastic pollution both on land and in the oceans. French intellectual roland barthes celebrated it in his 1957 book mythologies. The magazine covers all issues related to water engineering, including supply, use, management, treatment, recycling and drainage. In 1996, 27% of solid waste in the united states was recycled.
Primarily, the journal of plastics technology is a platform for publication of results from current research in the field of plastics technology. Start a free subscription today to stay up to date. Fighting contamination with coordination, by matt james, mel giles, wendy worley. Drivers to sustainable plastic solid waste recycling. Purchase mixed plastics recycling technology 1st edition. List of books and articles about recycling online research. Making plastic more recyclable environment journal. Attributionnoncommercial cc bync license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon work noncommercially, and. Find out which plastics your towns recycling system accepts, and make sure you recycle them.
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