Sustainability Assessment of Employing Chemical Recycling Technologies on Multilayer Packaging Waste

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(2), P. 556 - 556

Published: Jan. 13, 2025

While multilayer plastic is difficult for recycling, innovative technologies and tactics are being developed to improve the process. New in chemical recycling show promising results; however, net improvement brought environment, economy, society should be assessed their wider adoption diffusion. This study focuses on a Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) of an process sorting packaging waste from post-consumer sources obtain new food industry. The analysis indicated that made rPET obtained through depolymerization environmentally economically competitive compared virgin PET. Packaging rLDPE delamination usually performed worse (or comparable) than counterparts. social impact assessment some areas concern (e.g., workers’ health safety risks due exposure hazardous substances), as well potential opportunities improved local employment). paper first present synergetic approach sustainability high-performance solutions. It provides useful insights academics, managers, decision makers sector whether (and under what conditions) feasible environmental, economic, perspectives. Despite associated uncertainties, results attractive option further research, optimization, upscaling.

Language: Английский

Mild decarboxylation of neat muconic acid to levulinic acid: a combined experimental and computational mechanistic study

RSC Advances, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(53), P. 39408 - 39417

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

This work shows the complete, solvent-free conversion of lignin-derived cis – -muconic acid, a platform biochemical, into levulinic acid.

Language: Английский