Chemical recycling of plastic waste for sustainable material management: A prospective review on catalysts and processes

J Huang, A Veksha, WP Chan, A Giannis… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Plastic waste management becomes imperative to prevent detrimental plastic-related
environmental impacts. These relate to the huge plastic waste amount in both generation …

Transport fuel from waste plastics pyrolysis–A review on technologies, challenges and opportunities

MI Jahirul, MG Rasul, D Schaller, MMK Khan… - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite extensive research in recent years and great potential to help with energy and
waste management issues, thermochemical conversion technologies of mixed waste …

Plastic waste as pyrolysis feedstock for plastic oil production: a review

SH Chang - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Turning plastic waste into plastic oil by pyrolysis is one of the promising techniques to
eradicate plastic waste pollution and accelerate the circular economy of plastic materials …

Pyrolysis of polypropylene plastic waste into carbonaceous char: Priority of plastic waste management amidst COVID-19 pandemic

MM Harussani, SM Sapuan, U Rashid… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
COVID-19 global pandemic, originated from Wuhan, resulted in a massive increase in the
output of polypropylene (PP)-based personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare …

Pyrolysis: An effective technique for degradation of COVID-19 medical wastes

S Dharmaraj, V Ashokkumar, R Pandiyan… - …, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
COVID-19 has led to the enormous rise of medical wastes throughout the world, and these
have mainly been generated from hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare establishments …

Gram-scale bottom-up flash graphene synthesis

DX Luong, KV Bets, WA Algozeeb, MG Stanford… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Most bulk-scale graphene is produced by a top-down approach, exfoliating graphite, which
often requires large amounts of solvent with high-energy mixing, shearing, sonication or …

Thermochemical recycling of waste plastics by pyrolysis: a review

VK Soni, G Singh, BK Vijayan, A Chopra… - Energy & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The increasing demand for plastics for their widespread applications has ultimately resulted
in accumulation of substantial plastic waste, which remains a concern due to limited efforts …

Challenges and opportunities in sustainable management of microplastics and nanoplastics in the environment

B Sarkar, PD Dissanayake, NS Bolan, JY Dar… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The accumulation of microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) in terrestrial and aquatic
ecosystems has raised concerns because of their adverse effects on ecosystem functions …

Monomer recycling of polyethylene terephthalate, polycarbonate and polyethers: scalable processes to achieve high carbon circularity

D Parida, A Aerts, K Vanbroekhoven… - Progress in Polymer …, 2024 - Elsevier
This review presents a comprehensive description of the current pathways used in the
chemical recycling of oxygenated plastics, with a specific focus on poly (ethylene …

Marine environmental plastic pollution: mitigation by microorganism degradation and recycling valorization

J Oliveira, A Belchior, VD da Silva, A Rotter… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Plastics are very useful materials and present numerous advantages in the daily life of
individuals and society. However, plastics are accumulating in the environment and due to …