Manufacturing and Processing of Recycled Plastics
A special issue of Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing (ISSN 2504-4494).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 September 2023) | Viewed by 15438
Special Issue Editor
Interests: additive manufacturing; circular economy; eco-design and eco-efficiency; Industry 4.0; manufacturing processes; nanotechnology; product development; thermoplastics processing; thermoplastics recycling
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
The solution to the increasing levels of global plastic pollution, whether on land or the oceans, is the development of proper processes of incorporating recycled plastics into added-value products, which will turn plastic waste into an asset. Although plastic waste end-of-life treatment possibilities are still presently quite limited, costly, and time-intensive, it is important to continue with the effort to allow recycled plastics to be more promptly taken as raw material for new products. For the latter, there is a need for reliable and standardized procedures to characterize, trace, and guarantee the safety of recyclates, as well as the diffusion of successful processing of recycled plastics case studies.
In this Special Issue of JMMP, current research findings are going to be reported which focus on processes, equipment, systems, and material evaluation that can contribute to the development of robust and easy-to-use sampling and analysis procedures to ensure consistent recyclate quality and safe products, methodologies to establish the degree of degradation of recycled materials and to foresee their end-of-life, simulation of the processing of the recyclate, and recycled-based products.
In line with the scope of JMMP, we are interested in contributions that focus on topics such as:
- Recycled plastic processing technologies;
- Characterization techniques and methodologies to assess recycled plastic as raw material, as well as the evaluation of recycled plastic produced products for service;
- End-of-life analysis and treatment;
- Processing simulation, mechanics analysis, and predictive modeling of recycled-based products.
Dr. Victor Neto
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- recycled plastics
- recycled plastics-based products
- processing
- assessment
- circular economy
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