Utilization of Plastic Wastes and Its Technologies: An Overview

Kichu, Arenjungla; Devi, Nirmala

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-7525-9_50-1

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“…Vollmer et al, 2020;Thiounn & Smith, 2020;Schyns & Shaver, 2021 Restorative technologies New technologies make it possible to restore plastic molecules to their original state, allowing plastic reuse without losing quality. Kichu & Devi, 2021;Martin et al, 2022 Properly managing biodegradable waste makes it possible to avoid adverse environmental effects and has some benefits (Malav et al, 2020;Mahari et al, 2021). From this waste, you can get the electricity and biogas necessary for producing thermal energy and the excellent fertiliser of the earthcompost.…”

Section: Anaerobic Decompositionmentioning

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Review of challenges to transition towards circular economy

Lingaitienė,

Burinskienė,

Gružauskas

2024

JESI

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The growing volume of waste worldwide is driving us to search for solutions to recycle waste and reduce material consumption. It is necessary to create models that stop the deterioration of the environmental condition and offer a transition to a more efficient economic system where resources are less intensively used. The EU needs to ensure the transition to a sustainable circular economy (CE), which provides for waste recycling and preserves the value of natural resources, raw materials, and goods produced in the market for as long as possible. A more efficient economic system would contribute significantly to the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development (SD) Agenda targeted until 2030. This topic has still to be addressed in the literature, so we aim to reduce the research gaps in the publications with this article. The authors selected and analysed the variables that mainly influenced waste recycling, which is part of CE processes. The paper assessed the relationship between resource productivity and waste recycling variables; a Vector Error Correction Model was used. The results allowed us to provide novel insights concerning CE challenges.

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