Plastic Waste and Recycling

1. Introduction to plastic waste and recycling Trevor M. Letcher2. Production, use, and fate of synthetic polymers Roland Geyer3. The geography and geology of plastics: their environmental distribution and fate Sarah Gabbott, Sarah Key, Catherine Russell, Yasmin Yohan and Jan Zalasiewicz4. Biobased plastics Stephan Kabasci5. Biodegradable plastics Maja Rujnic Havstad6. Current industry position on plastic production and recycling Edward Kosior and Jonathan Mitchell7. Plastic waste in the terrestrial environment Rachel Hurley, Alice Horton, Amy Lusher and Luca Nizzetto8. The environmental impacts of plastic pollution Natalie A. Welden9. Microplastics: from origin to impacts Natalie A. Welden and Amy Lusher10. Textiles production and end-of-life management options Andreas Bartl11. Mechanical recycling of packaging waste Alexander Feil and Thomas Pretz12. Blast furnace feedstock and coke oven chemical feedstock Seiji Nomura13. Chemical routes for recyclingddissolving, catalytic, and thermochemical technologies Maija Pohjakallio and Tommi Vuorinen14. Conversion of plastic waste to fuel Mohanraj Chandran, Senthilkumar Tamilkolundu and Chandrasekar Murugesan15. The treatment of plastic in automobile shredder residue Alfons Buekens and Trevor M. Letcher16. Solutions to the plastic waste problem on land and in the oceans Edward Kosior and Irene Crescenzi17. Plastics we cannot live without Sharon George18. Secondary plastic productsdexamples and market trends Maija Pohjakallio19. Plastic waste in a circular economy John N. Hahladakis, Eleni Iacovidou and Spyridoula Gerassimidou20. Ecological and health issues of plastic waste Cayla R. Cook and Rolf U. Halden21. Policy responses to plastic pollution in Asia: summary of a regional gap analysis Lewis Akenji, Magnus Bengtsson, Yasuhiko Hotta, Mizuki Kato and Matthew Hengesbaugh22. The challenge of plastic pollution in Nigeria Emeka Dumbili and Lesley Henderson23. Plastic waste in the United Kingdom Libby Peake24. European