How much can chemical recycling contribute to plastic waste recycling in Europe? An assessment using material flow analysis modeling

A realistic material flow analysis for end-of-life plastic packaging management in Spain: Data gaps and suggestions for improvements towards effective recyclability

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Critical advances and future opportunities in upcycling commodity polymers

(2022) Coralie Jehanno et al.   NATURE

Assessing the feasibility of chemical recycling via steam cracking of untreated plastic waste pyrolysis oils: Feedstock impurities, product yields and coke formation

(2022) Marvin Kusenberg et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Quality of recycling: Urgent and undefined

(2022) Davide Tonini et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Highly selective conversion of mixed polyolefins to valuable base chemicals using phosphorus-modified and steam-treated mesoporous HZSM-5 zeolite with minimal carbon footprint

(2022) Andreas Eschenbacher et al.   APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL

Pyrolysis of mixed plastic waste (DKR-350): Effect of washing pre-treatment and fate of chlorine

(2022) Homer C. Genuino et al.   FUEL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY

Technical and environmental performances of alternative treatments for challenging plastics waste

(2022) Umberto Arena et al.   RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING

Maximizing olefin production via steam cracking of distilled pyrolysis oils from difficult-to-recycle municipal plastic waste and marine litter

(2022) Marvin Kusenberg et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Quality evaluation and economic assessment of an improved mechanical recycling process for post-consumer flexible plastics

(2022) Amir Bashirgonbadi et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Technical and market substitutability of recycled materials: Calculating the environmental benefits of mechanical and chemical recycling of plastic packaging waste

(2022) S. Huysveld et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Material flow analysis and recycling performance of an improved mechanical recycling process for post-consumer flexible plastics

(2022) Irdanto Saputra Lase et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Towards high-quality petrochemical feedstocks from mixed plastic packaging waste via advanced recycling: The past, present and future

(2022) Marvin Kusenberg et al.   FUEL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY

Plastic recycling in a circular economy; determining environmental performance through an LCA matrix model approach

(2021) A.E. Schwarz et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Life cycle environmental impacts of chemical recycling via pyrolysis of mixed plastic waste in comparison with mechanical recycling and energy recovery

(2021) Harish Jeswani et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Recycling of post-consumer plastic packaging waste in the EU: Recovery rates, material flows, and barriers

(2021) Ioannis Antonopoulos et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Moving from linear to circular household plastic packaging in Belgium: Prospective life cycle assessment of mechanical and thermochemical recycling

(2021) Didem Civancik-Uslu et al.   RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING

Flows of post-consumer plastic packaging in Germany: An MFA-aided case study

(2021) Caterina Picuno et al.   RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING

Multivariate input-output and material flow analysis of current and future plastic recycling rates from waste electrical and electronic equipment:The case of small household appliances

(2021) Irdanto Saputra Lase et al.   RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING

Opportunities and challenges for the application of post-consumer plastic waste pyrolysis oils as steam cracker feedstocks: To decontaminate or not to decontaminate?

(2021) Marvin Kusenberg et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Pyrolysis of end-of-life polystyrene in a pilot-scale reactor: Maximizing styrene production

(2021) Azd Zayoud et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Can plastics from end-of-life vehicles be managed in a sustainable way?

(2021) Giovanni Francesco Cardamone et al.   Sustainable Production and Consumption

A comprehensive experimental investigation of plastic waste pyrolysis oil quality and its dependence on the plastic waste composition

(2021) Marvin Kusenberg et al.   FUEL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY

Technologies for chemical recycling of household plastics – A technical review and TRL assessment

(2020) Martyna Solis et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Beyond Mechanical Recycling: Giving New Life to Plastic Waste

(2020) Ina Vollmer et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Economic performance of pyrolysis of mixed plastic waste: Open-loop versus closed-loop recycling

(2020) Macarena Larrain et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

An economic analysis of twenty light olefin production pathways

(2020) Zhitong Zhao et al.   Journal of Energy Chemistry

Chemical recycling to monomer for an ideal, circular polymer economy

(2020) Geoffrey W. Coates et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Mechanical Recycling of Packaging Plastics: A Review

(2020) Zoé O. G. Schyns et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Development and application of an analytical method to quantify odour removal in plastic waste recycling processes

(2020) Ruben Demets et al.   RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING

Dynamic Material Flow Analysis of PET, PE, and PP Flows in Europe: Evaluation of the Potential for Circular Economy

(2020) Marie Kampmann Eriksen et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

An analysis of the plastic waste trade and management in Asia

(2020) Yangyang Liang et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

A recycler’s perspective on the implications of REACH and food contact material (FCM) regulations for the mechanical recycling of FCM plastics

(2020) Ellen De Tandt et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Towards a better understanding of odor removal from post-consumer plastic film waste: A kinetic study on deodorization efficiencies with different washing media

(2020) Martijn Roosen et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Life cycle assessment of paper and plastic packaging waste in landfill, incineration, and gasification-pyrolysis

(2019) A. Demetrious et al.   Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management

Global environmental losses of plastics across their value chains

(2019) Morten W. Ryberg et al.   RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING

Probabilistic Material Flow Analysis of Seven Commodity Plastics in Europe

(2018) Delphine Kawecki et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Recent advances in the gasification of waste plastics. A critical overview

(2018) Gartzen Lopez et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Circular economy of plastic packaging: Current practice and perspectives in Austria

(2018) Emile Van Eygen et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Mechanical and chemical recycling of solid plastic waste

(2017) Kim Ragaert et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

(2017) Roland Geyer et al.   Science Advances

A global approach for sparse representation of uncertainty in Life Cycle Assessments of waste management systems

(2016) Valentina Bisinella et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT

Gasification of polyethylene in a bubbling fluidized bed operated with the air staging

(2013) Maria Laura Mastellone et al.   FUEL

Process and technological aspects of municipal solid waste gasification. A review

(2011) Umberto Arena   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Open-loop recycling: A LCA case study of PET bottle-to-fibre recycling

(2010) Li Shen et al.   RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING

Effect of Reprocessing and Accelerated Weathering on ABS Properties

(2009) J. M. Pérez et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMERS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Enhanced Production of C2–C4 Olefins Directly from Synthesis Gas

(2008) Yun-Jo Lee et al.   CATALYSIS LETTERS