Binding: Paperback
Description: Plastics and Sustainability: Practical Approaches provides a broad overview of sustainability as applied to plastics offering a range of opportunities and solutions to be applied in an academic or industrial setting. The book begins by introducing the challenges and opportunities relating to plastics and environmental sustainability. This is followed by detailed eco - profiles organized by polymer category. Subsequent chapters explore various approaches to plastics sustainability with in - depth coverage of incineration technology for energy recovery pyrolysis for chemical recovery blending technology design packaging circular economy and biopolymers. Finally international policies are summarized. The book aims to provide a broad source of information and a range of options to readers on how to evaluate and improve the sustainability of plastics with analyses of the advantages and drawbacks of different technologies and materials. Authored by two professional engineers with substantial experience in industry and consultancy this is a valuable resource for all those looking for a wide - ranging overview of sustainability as applied to plastics including researchers and advanced students from a range of materials science and engineering disciplines and engineers manufacturers scientists and R& D professionals from a range of industries.
Title: Plastics And Sustainability Practical Approaches
Author(s): Tueen Bee Soo (Associate Professor Lee Kong Chian Faculty Of Engineering And Science Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (Utar) Malaysia)
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Barcode: 9780128244890
Pages: 318 Pages, 150 Illustrations (40 In Full Color); Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 11/23/2022
Category: Waste Treatment & Disposal