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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2022.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: solid waste and resource management; plastic marine litter; environmental and chemical engineering; circular economy; remediation technologies of soils-sediments-wastewater
Interests: food waste prevention and management; plastic and plastic packaging system assessment; construction components reuse and modular structures; waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) repair and reuse
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Owing to several unique properties, plastics are currently considered to be the workhorse product of our modern society and, in a way, can promote sustainability under the circular economy (CE) concept; a concept that proclaims to instil a way of living where resources are retained and/or fed back into the economy, in the form of either “closed” or “cascaded” loops, for as long as possible. However, a vast amount of plastics become waste, due to leakage into the environment, mismanagement and/or inappropriate disposal at their consumption and/or end-of-life stage. It is, therefore, imperative to seek solutions at all stages of the plastic waste system and infrastructure, necessitating their sustainable management by combining integrated solid waste management strategies and focusing on redesigning and/or reinventing ways of reducing plastic waste and restricting the use of substances of concern in them. Designing and creating better quality plastics could potentially lead to a better recovery of “value” in the plastic waste systems, where value is considered as a complex variable, with impacts in mulptiple domains (i.e. environmental, economic, technical and social). If we can somehow accomplish this, the necessary interventions can be identified much easier and a higher potential of recovering resources can be unveiled and achieved.
In this SI we welcome, therefore, research and review articles that deal with all types of plastic waste management, ways of upcycling or downcycling them, substances of concern embedded in them, ways of combating plastic waste leakage in marine and terrestrial environments, as well as design and adoption of any new methods that will help reduce plastic waste under the CE era.
Dr. John N. Hahladakis
Guest Editor
Dr. Eleni Iacovidou
Dr. Eggo Ulphard Thoden van Velzen
Co-Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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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. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- plastic waste
- plastics
- sustainability
- circular economy
- waste management systems
- resource recovery from waste