Automotive Recycling, Plastics, and Sustainability: The Recycling Renaissance (Paperback)

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- 1. A transdisciplinary journey into sustainability science.- 1.1. Transdisciplinarity - why is it so important?.- 1.2. Geographic society and environment research.- 1.3. Systems sciences.- 1.4. Sustainable development.- 1.5. Ecology.- 1.6. Economy.- 1.7. Society, ethics, psychology, politics, and technology.- 1.8. In a nutshell: controversial sustainability as a challenge.- 2. Sustainability and automotive plastics - a controversial industry reality.- 2.1. Plastics.- 2.1.1. Definition and development of plastics.- 2.1.2. The life cycle of plastics.- 2.1.3. Environmental and social impact of plastics.- 2.1.4. Waste treatment technologies for (automotive) plastics.- 2.1.5. Environmentally sound solution: circular life cycle of plastics.- 2.1.6. Plastics are a blessing and a curse - a summary.- 2.2. Automotive plastics.- 2.2.1. Automotive and automotive plastic trends.- 2.2.2. Environmental impact of automotive plastics and cars in general.- 2.2.3.The car life cycle, ELV management, and recycling.- 2.3. In a nutshell: Holistic controversy of automotive plastics.- 3. What do the experts say? The survey results.-3.1. Validation of survey data through expert workshop.- 3.2. Demographic data and details about the survey participants.- 3.3. Automotive plastics recycling and recycled plastics.- 3.4. Special information from the survey groups.- 3.4.1. The survey - automotive group.- 3.4.2.The survey - recycling group.- 3.4.3. The survey - plastics group.- 3.5. In a nutshell: The survey results.- 4. A SCOT analysis, future perspectives and scenarios.- 5. Concepts for solutions to advance automotive recycling.- 5.1. A solution ranking by experts.- 5.2. Solutions for politics, companies, and independent institutions.- 5.3. Elements of a roadmap to ecologically sustainable automotive plastics.- 6. Today's illusion: true sustainability.- 7. Today's chance: the recycling renaissance.- 8. Why automotive recycling is an opportunity - an executive summary.- Bibliography.-Appendices.- Glossary.- Methods of the empirical research.- The original survey, and expert interview.