Special Issue "Advances in the Recycling and Processing of Plastic Waste"
A special issue of Recycling (ISSN 2313-4321).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2022.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: resource recovery, sustainable materials; green manufacturing; transformation of waste collection, mining and agricultural waste value adding
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Interests: chemical recycling; microplastics; biodegradable materials; ocean plastic waste; hydrothermal processing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
More than eight billion tons of plastic waste has accumulated worldwide over the past 50 years. The majority (80%) of the waste goes directly into landfills and 3% ends up in the oceans. At the current rate, we are heading towards more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050. Plastics are persistent in the environment and degrade slowly (over a century), releasing fragments, microplastics, and toxic chemicals into our environment.
The overall goal of this Special Issue is to shed light on the area of plastic waste recycling. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) advanced mechanical recycling, chemical recycling, biodegradable plastic material development, microplastic characterization/mitigation, characterization advancement for plastic waste, and recycling policy analysis.
Prof. Dr. Michele John
Dr. Wan-Ting (Grace) Chen
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Recycling is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- Mechanical recycling
- Chemical recycling
- Plastic waste
- Microplastics
- Plastic additives
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Properties and re-useability of light fraction plastics mechanically separated from WEEE
Authors: Ossi Martikka
Affiliation: LUT University
Abstract: Only in the EU, electrical and electronic equipment market reached 8.9 million tonnes in 2017, with increase of 6.5% from the previous year. Almost 3.8 million tonnes of WEEE was collected in the European union during 2017. The challenge with the reclaimed plastics, that it is likely they contain currently restricted substances as persistent organic pollutants. In this paper, the feasibility and possibility of recycling and sustainably reusing the light fraction separated from WEEE plastics utilizing hydrocyclone separation, is investigated with regard to regulatory norms such as 2011/65/EU and 2019/1021 (EU).
