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Recycling, Volume 8, Issue 3

June 2023 - 8 articles

Cover Story: More than eight billion tons of plastic waste has accumulated around the world over the last 50 years. The majority (80%) of the waste goes directly into landfills and 3% ends up in the oceans. At the current rate, there will be more plastic than that are fish in the oceans by 2050. Plastics are persistent in the environment and degrade slowly (over a century), releasing fragments, microplastics, and toxic chemicals into our environment. Primary recycling is generally the preferable option, but tertiary recycling is still required for removing recalcitrant pollutants. A modified solvent-based method was developed with acetone to remove brominated flame retardants. The degradation of the rubbery dispersed phase corresponding to butadiene can be accumulated in the less-soluble fraction of the extracted acrylonitrile butadiene styrene copolymer. View this paper
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
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Valuation of Plastic Waste as a Community Circular Economy Strategy in the Municipality of Choco–Colombia

  • Angie Tatiana Ortega-Ramírez,
  • Miriam Reyes Tovar,
  • Nelly del Carmen Elmira Castro and
  • Oscar Silva-Marrufo
Recycling2023, 8(3), 52;https://doi.org/10.3390/recycling8030052

20 June 2023

A business solution is proposed for the accumulation of waste in the Municipality of Choco without prior treatment through the establishment of a center for the reception, classification, recovery and use of solid plastic waste in the Municipality of...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
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Effect of Virgin PP Substitution with Recycled Plastic Caps in the Manufacture of a Product for the Telephony Sector

  • Beatriz Arioli de Sá Teles,
  • Isadora Luiza Clímaco Cunha,
  • Manoel Lisboa da Silva Neto,
  • Hélio Wiebeck,
  • Ticiane Sanches Valera,
  • Simara Silveira de Souza,
  • Alfredo Felipe de Oliveira Schmitt,
  • Vinicius Oliveira and
  • Luiz Kulay
Recycling2023, 8(3), 51;https://doi.org/10.3390/recycling8030051

9 June 2023

This study investigated the effects of partial and total substitutions of fossil polypropylene (PP) for recycled plastic cap equivalents in the manufacture of signage labels used by the telephone industry. Four alternative scenarios to using virgin P...

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4 Citations
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Bioherbicide from Azadirachta indica Seed Waste: Exploitation, Efficient Extraction of Neem Oil and Allelopathic Effect on Senna occidentalis

  • Larissa Macelle de Paulo Barbosa,
  • Jorge Oliveira Santos,
  • Rayssa Carolinne Mouzinho de Sousa,
  • Jomar Livramento Barros Furtado,
  • Pedro Vidinha,
  • Marco Aurelio Suller Garcia,
  • Hector Aguilar Vitorino and
  • Daiane Fossatti Dall’Oglio
Recycling2023, 8(3), 50;https://doi.org/10.3390/recycling8030050

24 May 2023

Bioherbicides are an alternative to minimize the damage caused to the environment using agrochemicals. This study had the objective of extracting neem oil from ripe waste fruits that Azadirachta indica A. Juss and optimizing the process using solvent...

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34 Citations
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Costs of Gasification Technologies for Energy and Fuel Production: Overview, Analysis, and Numerical Estimation

  • Gonçalo Lourinho,
  • Octávio Alves,
  • Bruno Garcia,
  • Bruna Rijo,
  • Paulo Brito and
  • Catarina Nobre
Recycling2023, 8(3), 49;https://doi.org/10.3390/recycling8030049

19 May 2023

During recent years, gasification technology has gained a high potential and attractiveness to convert biomass and other solid wastes into a valuable syngas for energy production or synthesis of new biofuels. The implementation of real gasification f...

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  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
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Emerging and Recycling of Li-Ion Batteries to Aid in Energy Storage, A Review

  • Shammya Afroze,
  • Md Sumon Reza,
  • Kairat Kuterbekov,
  • Asset Kabyshev,
  • Marzhan M. Kubenova,
  • Kenzhebatyr Z. Bekmyrza and
  • Abul K. Azad
Recycling2023, 8(3), 48;https://doi.org/10.3390/recycling8030048

8 May 2023

The global population has increased over time, therefore the need for sufficient energy has risen. However, many countries depend on nonrenewable resources for daily usage. Nonrenewable resources take years to produce and sources are limited for gene...

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6 Citations
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The Use of Vacuum Residue as a Potential Rejuvenator in Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement: Physical, Rheological, and Mechanical Traits Analysis

  • Zaid Hazim Al-Saffar,
  • Ahmed Eltwati,
  • Ehab Essam Aziz,
  • Haryati Yaacob,
  • Halah Abdulsattar Dawood,
  • Ramadhansyah Putra Jaya,
  • Mohammed S. Al Jawahery and
  • Ekarizan Shaffie
Recycling2023, 8(3), 47;https://doi.org/10.3390/recycling8030047

4 May 2023

Asphalt recycling technology with a high content of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) is becoming more important as the price of paving materials rises and sustainable development and environmental conservation rules become more rigorous. Nevertheless...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
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Microfactory Design for Valorization of E-Waste Plastics (Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene, Polycarbonate, and Polypropylene) on Additive Manufacturing Sector

  • Alejandro Moure Abelenda and
  • Farid Aiouache
Recycling2023, 8(3), 46;https://doi.org/10.3390/recycling8030046

1 May 2023

Less than half of e-waste plastics are sorted worldwide, and this rate is likely to decline as major processing countries have banned importation of e-waste plastics. This forces the development of decentralized processing facilities, also known as m...

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2 Citations
4,202 Views
21 Pages
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Municipal Waste Recycling Customer Education and Communication in Slovenia and Croatia

  • Boštjan Aver,
  • Nikša Alfirević and
  • Ajda Fošner
Recycling2023, 8(3), 45;https://doi.org/10.3390/recycling8030045

1 May 2023

The aim of this paper is twofold: (a) to present the existing regional research related to customer education and communication in municipal waste recycling from the viewpoint of a comparative bibliometric analysis and (b) to illustrate how municipal...

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