Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.15480/882.4021
Publisher DOI: 10.3390/su132313266
Title: Towards higher quality of recycled plastics: Limitations from the material’s perspective
Language: English
Authors: Alassali, Ayah 
Picuno, Caterina 
Chong, Zhi Kai  
Guo, Jinyang 
Maletz, Roman 
Kuchta, Kerstin  
Issue Date: 30-Nov-2021
Publisher: MDPPI
Source: Sustainability 13 (23): 13266 (2021)
Abstract (english): 
The increasing consumption of plastics and plastic products results in correspondingly substantial volumes of waste, which poses considerable environmental burdens. With the ongoing environmental actions, the application of circular economy on this waste stream is becoming inevitable. In this paper, the topics of plastics recycling, circular economy on plastics, and challenges to plastic waste recycling are critically reviewed. In the first part of this paper, the development of research on plastic recycling was viewed from 1950 until 2020 using the scientific database Web of Science, and 682 related studies were found and used to assess the changing research priorities along that timeline. The following sections discuss the potentials and requirements to enhance the quality of the produced recycled plastic, in connection with the factors that currently limit it. In conclusion, the quality of recycled plastic is generally determined by the homogeneity of the recovered plastic feed. There are various strategies which could be implemented to overcome the hindrances identified in the paper and to improve the quality of the recycled plastic, such as working on enhanced product designs for minimised waste heterogeneity and controlling the materials’ degree of contamination by applying advanced sorting.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11420/11252
DOI: 10.15480/882.4021
ISSN: 2071-1050
Journal: Sustainability 
Institute: Circular Resource Engineering and Management V-11 
Document Type: Article
Project: Publikationsfonds 2021 
License: CC BY 4.0 (Attribution) CC BY 4.0 (Attribution)
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