Plastic Waste and Recycling

1. Introduction to plastic waste and recycling Trevor M. Letcher

2. Production, use, and fate of synthetic polymersRoland Geyer

3. The geography and geology of plastics: their environmentaldistribution and fateSarah Gabbott, Sarah Key, Catherine Russell, Yasmin Yohan andJan Zalasiewicz

4. Biobased plasticsStephan Kabasci

5. Biodegradable plasticsMaja Rujnic Havstad

6. Current industry position on plastic production and recyclingEdward Kosior and Jonathan Mitchell

7. Plastic waste in the terrestrial environmentRachel Hurley, Alice Horton, Amy Lusher and Luca Nizzetto

8. The environmental impacts of plastic pollutionNatalie A. Welden

9. Microplastics: from origin to impactsNatalie A. Welden and Amy Lusher

10. Textiles production and end-of-life management optionsAndreas Bartl

11. Mechanical recycling of packaging wasteAlexander Feil and Thomas Pretz

12. Blast furnace feedstock and coke oven chemical feedstockSeiji Nomura

13. Chemical routes for recyclingddissolving, catalytic, andthermochemical technologiesMaija Pohjakallio and Tommi Vuorinen

14. Conversion of plastic waste to fuelMohanraj Chandran, Senthilkumar Tamilkolundu andChandrasekar Murugesan

15. The treatment of plastic in automobile shredder residueAlfons Buekens and Trevor M. Letcher

16. Solutions to the plastic waste problem on land and in theoceansEdward Kosior and Irene Crescenzi

17. Plastics we cannot live withoutSharon George

18. Secondary plastic productsdexamples and market trendsMaija Pohjakallio

19. Plastic waste in a circular economyJohn N. Hahladakis, Eleni Iacovidou and Spyridoula Gerassimidou

20. Ecological and health issues of plastic wasteCayla R. Cook and Rolf U. Halden

21. Policy responses to plastic pollution in Asia: summary of aregional gap analysisLewis Akenji, Magnus Bengtsson, Yasuhiko Hotta, Mizuki Kato andMatthew Hengesbaugh

22. The challenge of plastic pollution in NigeriaEmeka Dumbili and Lesley Henderson

23. Plastic waste in the United KingdomLibby Peake

24. European Union’s plastic strategy and an impact assessmentof the proposed directive on tackling single-use plastics itemsTim Elliott, Hannah Gillie and Alice Thomson