Chemists are reimagining recycling to keep plastics out of landfills
Recycling plastics is really hard, and usually creates low-quality materials that aren't good for much. ... membership organization dedicated to public engagement in scientific research and ...
Full article: Recycling
Target (1) in this research and development project was to increase recycling and reduce the production of waste. The driver (1) was legislation and the aim to decrease environmental impacts. The project reached the expected results (1); waste to landfill dramatically decreased and reuse increased. Figure 6.
(PDF) Recycling of Plastic Waste: A Systematic Review Using
Plastic recycling research was divided into clusters that depend on their citation. topology. W e analyzed 21 clusters with more than 500 papers (total number of papers. was 32,962, 92.8%) ...
Full article: A systematic review in recycling/reusing/re-manufacturing
A systematic analysis explains a comprehensive and extensive discussion of different aspects of the latest research articles. It also focuses on the current development and recent progress of a particular topic, points out the research gap in this regard and enlightens the future directions of research. ... Recent research on the recycling ...
Recycling bias and reduction neglect
However, our research finds strong evidence for a recycling bias and reduction neglect. Across two surveys ( NTotal = 1,321), most participants perceived recycling as the most sustainable action ...
Recycling our way to sustainability
But recycling remains a fundamental strategy to extract value from resources, as evidenced by its current contribution to 8.6% global circularity 1. To improve recycling rates, we need to ...
The future of recycling in the United States
In recent months, both the solid waste industry press and mainstream media in the United States (including Fortune, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post) have called attention to the growing 'ills' of recycling (Davis, 2015; Groden, 2015; Whelan, 2015).In short, the common theme of these articles is that recycling in the USA has stalled and the situation is dire.
New report unveils what plastic makers knew about recycling : NPR
An ExxonMobil spokesperson said in a statement in November 2023 that the company is "launching real solutions to address plastic waste and improve recycling rates." The company has previously said ...
The future of plastics recycling
Recent research points the way toward chemical recycling methods with lower energy requirements, compatibilization of mixed plastic wastes to avoid the need for sorting, and expanding recycling technologies to traditionally nonrecyclable polymers. Roughly half of the annual global production of solid plastics, or 150 million tons, is thrown ...
Plastic waste: Challenges and opportunities
Plastic waste: Challenges and opportunities. An estimated 318 million tonnes of plastic resin is produced every year, much of it directly contributing to the 218 million tonnes of total annual solid plastic waste generation as a part of Municipal Solid Waste (year of reference: 2016). Global average plastic recycling rates are only 15%, whilst ...
Recycling perceptions, realities vary widely in U.S.
According to the EPA report, 40.4% of the 3.1 million tons of consumer electronics that entered the wastestream in 2013 were recycled, up from 30.6% in 2012. About half (48%) of adults in the Pew Research Center survey say their community has services for recycling electronic devices, though about a third (34%) say they aren't sure.
Recycling News, Research and Analysis
Articles on Recycling. Displaying 1 - 20 of 333 articles. Raw materials are key for the climate transition. Electric vehicles, for example, require cobalt, nickel, lithium, and manganese for their ...
Sustainability
Research into plastic recycling is rapidly increasing as ocean and land pollution and ecosystem degradation from plastic waste is becoming a serious concern. In this study, we conducted a systematic review on emerging research topics, which were selected from 35,519 studies on plastic recycling by bibliometrics analysis. Our results show that research on the biodegradability of plastics ...
Chemical recycling of waste plastics: current challenges and
Technological challenges of chemical recycling. The comprehensive recycling of waste plastics entails a series of stages, including collection, sorting, pre-processing, deconstruction-reforming reactions, and product separation ( Fig. 1 b). While considerable research efforts have been dedicated to catalytic technologies, there has been a ...
Decades of public messages about recycling in the US have crowded out
In that order, they include source reduction and reuse; recycling and composting; energy recovery, such as burning trash to generate energy; and treatment and disposal, typically in a landfill.
Plastics recycling: challenges and opportunities
Effective recycling of mixed plastics waste is the next major challenge for the plastics recycling sector. The advantage is the ability to recycle a larger proportion of the plastic waste stream by expanding post-consumer collection of plastic packaging to cover a wider variety of materials and pack types.
Recycle and Reuse to Reduce Plastic Waste
The objective of this research is to focus on the plastic recycling processes. It discusses two types of plastic, followed by various instances. It then elaborates on the four methods of recycling, concentrating on many phases and subparts of each one. It analyses the quality of recycled plastics with various contaminants.
Yale Experts Explain Recycling
Yale supports the State of Connecticut's goal of diverting (reducing, reusing, and recycling) 60% of waste by the year 2024. Recycling at Yale is single-stream, meaning that rigid plastics, metals, paper and cardboard, and glass all go into one bin. The materials are collected by university recycling trucks, brought to a transfer station, and ...
Recycling Past and Present and the New Innovation Challenge for
Recycling is critical for the drive towards a circular economy and sustainable materials. More than ever, consumers, industries, governments, and academics are looking at end-of-life materials processing with the simultaneous goals of reducing emissions and energy consumption from primary materials production, encouraging sustainable practices, and securing the supply chains of key materials.
(PDF) The impact of recycling in preserving the environment
while 27 tonnes MSW - municipal solid waste was. generated in 2013 alone; Recycling helps conserve natural resources, whereas, the office paper, recycled can save 27,300 liters of. water, 18 trees ...
Moving from recycling to waste prevention: A review of barriers and
Article 3(17) defines recycling as: 'any recovery operation by which waste materials are reprocessed into products, materials or substances whether for the original or other purposes. It includes the reprocessing of organic material but does not include energy recovery and the reprocessing into materials that are to be used as fuels or for ...
How Useful Is Recycling, Really?
Recycling does have value. It is one of the easier climate-friendly acts individuals can undertake, and it reduces the extraction of virgin materials. "Any time you use renewable resources, or ...
Environmental Programs Benefits of Recycling
Benefits of Recycling. How does recycling benefit the environment? Recycling reduces the use of natural resources by reusing materials: 94% of the natural resources used by Americans are non-renewable. Non-renewable, natural resource use has increased from 59% in 1900 and 88% in 1945. Recycling saves non-renewable resources.
A research team is developing a method to recycle more plastics
A research team is developing a method to recycle more plastics. Despite consumer efforts to sort and separate recyclables, most plastic bottles still end up in the landfill. Standard recycling ...
New recycling method makes solar cells even more environmentally
The paper's authors describing the new recycling technique note that, at the end of 2020, 18 percent of the solar cells in use had been manufactured that same year, and the pace of manufacturing ...
Closed‐loop recycling of mixed plastics of polyester and CO2‐based
Research Article. Closed-loop recycling of mixed plastics of polyester and CO2-based polycarbonate to a single monomer. Changxia Shi, Changxia Shi. ... Remarkably, a one-pot recycling process of a BiLO-derived PE/PC blend back to the constituent monomer BiLO in >99% selectivity was achieved with a superbase catalyst at 150 °C, thereby ...
The plastics industry says chemical recycling could help banish ...
A chemical recycling facility in Ashley, Indiana, run by the company Brightmark, has the potential to process 100,000 tons of plastic waste a year through chemical recycling, but five years after ...
Researchers: Decades of public messages about recycling in the US have
In our research on waste behavior, sustainability, engineering design and decision making, we examine what U.S. residents understand about the efficacy of different waste management strategies and ...
The plastics industry says this technology could help banish ...
A chemical recycling facility in Ashley, Indiana, run by the company Brightmark, has the potential to process 100,000 tons of plastic waste a year through chemical recycling, but five years after ...
Austria, Wales, and Taiwan lead global recycling league table
The research reveals Austria and Wales both recycled 59 per cent of their household or municipal waste collected last year. They were followed in the rankings by Taiwan, which achieved a 53 per ...
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Recycling plastics is really hard, and usually creates low-quality materials that aren't good for much. ... membership organization dedicated to public engagement in scientific research and ...
Target (1) in this research and development project was to increase recycling and reduce the production of waste. The driver (1) was legislation and the aim to decrease environmental impacts. The project reached the expected results (1); waste to landfill dramatically decreased and reuse increased. Figure 6.
Plastic recycling research was divided into clusters that depend on their citation. topology. W e analyzed 21 clusters with more than 500 papers (total number of papers. was 32,962, 92.8%) ...
A systematic analysis explains a comprehensive and extensive discussion of different aspects of the latest research articles. It also focuses on the current development and recent progress of a particular topic, points out the research gap in this regard and enlightens the future directions of research. ... Recent research on the recycling ...
However, our research finds strong evidence for a recycling bias and reduction neglect. Across two surveys ( NTotal = 1,321), most participants perceived recycling as the most sustainable action ...
But recycling remains a fundamental strategy to extract value from resources, as evidenced by its current contribution to 8.6% global circularity 1. To improve recycling rates, we need to ...
In recent months, both the solid waste industry press and mainstream media in the United States (including Fortune, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post) have called attention to the growing 'ills' of recycling (Davis, 2015; Groden, 2015; Whelan, 2015).In short, the common theme of these articles is that recycling in the USA has stalled and the situation is dire.
An ExxonMobil spokesperson said in a statement in November 2023 that the company is "launching real solutions to address plastic waste and improve recycling rates." The company has previously said ...
Recent research points the way toward chemical recycling methods with lower energy requirements, compatibilization of mixed plastic wastes to avoid the need for sorting, and expanding recycling technologies to traditionally nonrecyclable polymers. Roughly half of the annual global production of solid plastics, or 150 million tons, is thrown ...
Plastic waste: Challenges and opportunities. An estimated 318 million tonnes of plastic resin is produced every year, much of it directly contributing to the 218 million tonnes of total annual solid plastic waste generation as a part of Municipal Solid Waste (year of reference: 2016). Global average plastic recycling rates are only 15%, whilst ...
According to the EPA report, 40.4% of the 3.1 million tons of consumer electronics that entered the wastestream in 2013 were recycled, up from 30.6% in 2012. About half (48%) of adults in the Pew Research Center survey say their community has services for recycling electronic devices, though about a third (34%) say they aren't sure.
Articles on Recycling. Displaying 1 - 20 of 333 articles. Raw materials are key for the climate transition. Electric vehicles, for example, require cobalt, nickel, lithium, and manganese for their ...
Research into plastic recycling is rapidly increasing as ocean and land pollution and ecosystem degradation from plastic waste is becoming a serious concern. In this study, we conducted a systematic review on emerging research topics, which were selected from 35,519 studies on plastic recycling by bibliometrics analysis. Our results show that research on the biodegradability of plastics ...
Technological challenges of chemical recycling. The comprehensive recycling of waste plastics entails a series of stages, including collection, sorting, pre-processing, deconstruction-reforming reactions, and product separation ( Fig. 1 b). While considerable research efforts have been dedicated to catalytic technologies, there has been a ...
In that order, they include source reduction and reuse; recycling and composting; energy recovery, such as burning trash to generate energy; and treatment and disposal, typically in a landfill.
Effective recycling of mixed plastics waste is the next major challenge for the plastics recycling sector. The advantage is the ability to recycle a larger proportion of the plastic waste stream by expanding post-consumer collection of plastic packaging to cover a wider variety of materials and pack types.
The objective of this research is to focus on the plastic recycling processes. It discusses two types of plastic, followed by various instances. It then elaborates on the four methods of recycling, concentrating on many phases and subparts of each one. It analyses the quality of recycled plastics with various contaminants.
Yale supports the State of Connecticut's goal of diverting (reducing, reusing, and recycling) 60% of waste by the year 2024. Recycling at Yale is single-stream, meaning that rigid plastics, metals, paper and cardboard, and glass all go into one bin. The materials are collected by university recycling trucks, brought to a transfer station, and ...
Recycling is critical for the drive towards a circular economy and sustainable materials. More than ever, consumers, industries, governments, and academics are looking at end-of-life materials processing with the simultaneous goals of reducing emissions and energy consumption from primary materials production, encouraging sustainable practices, and securing the supply chains of key materials.
while 27 tonnes MSW - municipal solid waste was. generated in 2013 alone; Recycling helps conserve natural resources, whereas, the office paper, recycled can save 27,300 liters of. water, 18 trees ...
Article 3(17) defines recycling as: 'any recovery operation by which waste materials are reprocessed into products, materials or substances whether for the original or other purposes. It includes the reprocessing of organic material but does not include energy recovery and the reprocessing into materials that are to be used as fuels or for ...
Recycling does have value. It is one of the easier climate-friendly acts individuals can undertake, and it reduces the extraction of virgin materials. "Any time you use renewable resources, or ...
Benefits of Recycling. How does recycling benefit the environment? Recycling reduces the use of natural resources by reusing materials: 94% of the natural resources used by Americans are non-renewable. Non-renewable, natural resource use has increased from 59% in 1900 and 88% in 1945. Recycling saves non-renewable resources.
A research team is developing a method to recycle more plastics. Despite consumer efforts to sort and separate recyclables, most plastic bottles still end up in the landfill. Standard recycling ...
The paper's authors describing the new recycling technique note that, at the end of 2020, 18 percent of the solar cells in use had been manufactured that same year, and the pace of manufacturing ...
Research Article. Closed-loop recycling of mixed plastics of polyester and CO2-based polycarbonate to a single monomer. Changxia Shi, Changxia Shi. ... Remarkably, a one-pot recycling process of a BiLO-derived PE/PC blend back to the constituent monomer BiLO in >99% selectivity was achieved with a superbase catalyst at 150 °C, thereby ...
A chemical recycling facility in Ashley, Indiana, run by the company Brightmark, has the potential to process 100,000 tons of plastic waste a year through chemical recycling, but five years after ...
In our research on waste behavior, sustainability, engineering design and decision making, we examine what U.S. residents understand about the efficacy of different waste management strategies and ...
A chemical recycling facility in Ashley, Indiana, run by the company Brightmark, has the potential to process 100,000 tons of plastic waste a year through chemical recycling, but five years after ...
The research reveals Austria and Wales both recycled 59 per cent of their household or municipal waste collected last year. They were followed in the rankings by Taiwan, which achieved a 53 per ...