CHIMIA (Dec 2023)

Significance of Plastic Recycling with the Focus on Polyesters – Creating a Circular Economy

  • F. Pelin Uran,
  • Hale Bila,
  • Shaista Shah,
  • Mohamed Hlaiem,
  • Bardiya Valizadeh,
  • Samantha Anderson,
  • Christopher Ireland

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2533/chimia.2023.836
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 77, no. 12

Abstract

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Plastics materials are essential in every part of our lives, resulting in their increasing production and consumption. Consequently, recycling of plastics has been of great importance in the last decades. Among all types of plastics, polyesters have become very appealing for numerous kinds of applications, making their recycling crucial. Several techniques have been developed for the recycling of plastics with the aim of eliminating the waste accumulated, as well as to create a circular economy.

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