This cutting-edge review highlights the fundamentals, design, and manufacturing strategies
used for sandwich composites. Sandwich composite structures have the advantages of light …

Polypropylene (PP) has a high recycling potential. However, the properties of mechanically
recycled PP (R-PP) have not been fully compared to those of virgin PP (V-PP). Therefore, in …

The current efforts in moving closer towards a circular plastics economy puts massive
pressure on recycled plastics, especially recycled polyethylene (rPE) and recycled …

Vegetable fibers hybridization with basalt ones is a suitable way to exploit the environmental
advantages of vegetable fibers while preserving composites mechanical properties …

To enable the use of recyclates in thermoformed polypropylene products with acceptable
optical appearance and good mechanical stability, a multilayer structure of virgin and …

Post-consumer recyclates often have a property profile that results from mixing a variety of
products, which are made from different materials, produced by different processing …

Polypropylene (PP) plastic packaging waste consists of a variety of different plastic
packaging products with a great span in rheological and mechanical behavior. Therefore …

In this study we conducted a material flow analysis (MFA) of plastic packaging to determine
the current state and performance of waste collection and recyclability with respect to the …

Polyethylene constitutes more than one-third of the world's plastic and is one of the main
components in municipal waste streams. Unfortunately, varying amounts of polypropylene …

This article aims to describe the current state of research on plastic waste management as a
circular economy practice at the end of the supply chain. The methodological strategy …