Fostering Bioplastics Circularity through Hydrothermal Treatments: Degradation Behavior and Products
Filippo Marchelli,
Marco Mattonai,
Roberta Ferrentino
et al.
Abstract:Bioplastics are produced in growing amounts due to their environmental benefits, but their disposal routes remain ambiguous. A hydrothermal treatment (HT) may be a sustainable process to improve the fate of waste bioplastics, but nearly no information is available on how they respond to it. In this work, HT of biodegradable bioplastics was performed, and the resulting solid and liquid products were characterized by elemental analysis, analytical pyrolysis-based techniques, ion chromatography, and gas chromatog… Show more
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