Plastic Waste and Recycling: Environmental Impact, Societal Issues, Prevention, and Solutions (Paperback)

A. INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction 2. Production, Use and Fate of all Synthetic Plastic

B. INNOVATION IN PLASTIC MATERIALS 3. The Geography and Geology of Plastics: the environmental distribution and fate 4. Bio-based Plastics 5.? Biodegradable plastics

C. END OF LIFE PROBLEMS FOR PLASTIC WASTE 6. Current Industrial position on plastic production and recycling 7. Plastic Waste in the Terrestrial Environment 8. The Environmental impacts of plastic pollution 9. Microplastics: from origins to impacts 10. Textile Production and End of Life Management Options

D. SOLUTIONS FOR PLASTIC WASTE? 11. Mechanical Recycling of Packaging Waste 12. Blast furnace feedstock and coke oven chemical feedstock 13. Chemical Routes for Recycling - dissolving, catalytic and thermochemical technologies 14. Conversion of Plastic Waste to fuel 15. The treatment of plastic in ASR (automobile shredder residue) 16. Solutions to the plastic waste problem: on land and in the ocean

E. PLASTICS: SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 17. Plastics we can’t live without 18. Secondary Plastic Products - examples and market trends 19. Plastic Waste in a Circular Economy 20. Ecological and Health issues of Plastic Waste

F.? PLASTIC WASTE AROUND THE WORLD 21. Plastic Waste in Asia 22. The Challenge of Plastic Pollution in Nigeria 23. Plastic waste in the United Kingdom 24. EU’s plastic strategy and an impact assessment of the proposed directive on tackling single use plastics items