The environmental benefits of improving packaging waste collection in Europe

Tallentire, C.W.; Steubing, Bernhard

doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2019.12.045

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“…While reduction and reuse economies must be promoted, and biosourced feedstocks that avoid impacting our agricultural industry will continue to grow, the recycling of plastics is a lynchpin to reducing plastic waste. [ 11–13 ] With zero land‐filling of collected waste as a target for full circularity, recycling must improve. [ 2 ]…”

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Mechanical Recycling of Packaging Plastics: A Review

Schyns

Shaver

2020

Macromol. Rapid Commun.

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The current global plastics economy is highly linear, with the exceptional performance and low carbon footprint of polymeric materials at odds with dramatic increases in plastic waste. Transitioning to a circular economy that retains plastic in its highest value condition is essential to reduce environmental impacts, promoting reduction, reuse, and recycling. Mechanical recycling is an essential tool in an environmentally and economically sustainable economy of plastics, but current mechanical recycling processes are limited by cost, degradation of mechanical properties, and inconsistent quality products. This review covers the current methods and challenges for the mechanical recycling of the five main packaging plastics: poly(ethylene terephthalate), polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, and poly(vinyl chloride) through the lens of a circular economy. Their reprocessing induced degradation mechanisms are introduced and strategies to improve their recycling are discussed. Additionally, this review briefly examines approaches to improve polymer blending in mixed plastic waste streams and applications of lower quality recyclate.

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Mechanical Recycling of Packaging Plastics: A Review

Schyns

Shaver

2020

Macromol. Rapid Commun.

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“…While Brouwer et al, 2018 , Van Eygen et al, 2018 analysed the implications of their results for a circular economy, these analyses cover the Dutch and the Austrian conditions only. A recent study by Tallentire and Steubing (2020) provides a general overview of packaging waste material flows in EU, whereas Eriksen et al (2020) analyses the evolution of plastic flows over time under different system assumption, including quality-related aspects of the secondary plastic. However, both studies rely on secondary data, and do not focus specifically on the technical challenges of PPW management.…”

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Recycling of post-consumer plastic packaging waste in the EU: Recovery rates, material flows, and barriers

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Highlights We collected primary data on plants efficiencies and barriers hindering recycling. Recovery rates are higher for PET and HDPE and lower for films, PP, PS. Current EU27 PPW recycling rate is 15% excluding the exported waste (25% otherwise). Presence of films in the input-waste hampers recovery of target materials. Substantial improvements are needed in the recycling chain, primarily the collection.

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“…The cause of excessive use of packaging is also the constant expansion of international trade, for which packaging is an essential element. (Tallentire  Steubing, 2020;Ferreira, Figueiredo  Oliveira, 2017). All kinds of packaging are problematic if we produce too much.…”

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The impact of environmental responsibility on changing consumer behaviour – sustainable market in Slovakia

Holotová¹,

Nagyová²,

Holota³

2020

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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Our planet is faced with numerous social and ecological challenges that we have to resolve as soon as possible through a combination of innovative ideas implemented under local conditions. One of the biggest challenges for many startups, retail chains and consumers themselves is packaging waste reduction that involves activities mainly aimed at waste prevention. The targeted impact of sustainability information on consumers' purchase intentions plays a key role in shaping their future decision-making, and Slovak market is no exception in this regard. A relatively new concept of "zero waste" in relation to packaging waste prevention directly during shopping has been given the green light thanks to behavioural changes among many Slovak eco-conscious consumers. The main aim of presented paper is to determine the level of environmental awareness among Slovak consumers basing on the results of marketing research on their shopping habits. The present paper also focuses on the current situation with zero-waste stores as a newly developing concept for Slovak market. In order to meet the objectives of this paper, own marketing research has been conducted (covering 783 respondents from Slovak Republic). For statistical processing of the results, we have used Levene´s test, Bartlett´s test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and Chi-Square test of independence. The research findings confirm that consumers' experiences, awareness and sustainable shopping habits are at a good level but there are significant differences in attitudes across generations, genders and places of living.

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The environmental benefits of improving packaging waste collection in Europe

Cited by 74 publications

References 32 publications

Mechanical Recycling of Packaging Plastics: A Review

Mechanical Recycling of Packaging Plastics: A Review

Recycling of post-consumer plastic packaging waste in the EU: Recovery rates, material flows, and barriers

The impact of environmental responsibility on changing consumer behaviour – sustainable market in Slovakia

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