Understanding Plastics Recycling: Economic, Ecological, and Technical Aspects of Plastic Waste Handling - Hardcover

Rudolph, Natalie; Kiesel, Raphael; Aumnate, Chuanchom

 
9781569908655: Understanding Plastics Recycling: Economic, Ecological, and Technical Aspects of Plastic Waste Handling
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1569908656 ISBN 13: 9781569908655
Verlag: Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

This book shows the true and often-underestimated market potential of plastics recycling, with analysis from economic, ecological, and technical perspectives. It is aimed at both technical and non-technical readers, including decision makers in material suppliers, plastic product manufacturers, governmental agencies, educators, and anyone with a general interest in plastics recycling.

An overview of waste handling systems with a focus on the U.S. market is provided. Different methods of waste handling are compared from both economic and ecological perspectives. Since plastic waste recycling is essential from an ecological point of view, common strategies and new approaches to both increase the recycling rate and improve recycling economically and technically are presented. This includes processing and material properties of recycled plastics. Finally, a worldwide outlook of plastic recycling is provided with analysis of additional worldwide markets, encompassing highly developed, fast-developing, and less developed countries.

This extensively revised and expanded 3rd edition includes an overview of new recycling methodologies, as well as the influence of digitalization. It contains new chapters providing, respectively, characterization methods for plastic waste, and policy overview and its influence on the economics of recycling. Economic and environmental analysis are more general, comparing the economic benefits of the different recycling methods based on, e.g., volume, contamination, etc. Finally, extension of the global recycling chains is discussed.

The spreadsheets used in the economic analyses are also provided as a bonus for the reader.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Dr.-Ing. Natalie Rudolph is Division Manager Polymer, NETZSCH Analysing & Testing. She was previously Director of R&D in Composites at AREVO, Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering, and Team Leader at the Fraunhofer Institute ICT, Germany.

Dr.-Ing. Raphael Kiesel is Senior Vice President, Business Unit Lighting ARRI Group. He was previously a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology, Germany and before that a Research Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Chuanchom Aumnate, Ph.D., is a Researcher at the Metallurgy and Materials Science Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She was previously Research Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Verlag
Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1569908656
ISBN 13 
9781569908655
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
3
Anzahl der Seiten
183
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