Chemical recycling of polyester textile wastes: shifting towards sustainability

Green Chemistry, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 26(12), P. 6857 - 6885

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Amongst all synthetic polymers used in the clothing industry, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is most widely polyester, its fibres representing half total PET global market (in comparison bottle being less than a third).

Language: Английский

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A review on fate and ecotoxicity of biodegradable microplastics in aquatic system: Are biodegradable plastics truly safe for the environment?

Environmental Pollution, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 344, P. 123399 - 123399

Published: Jan. 17, 2024

Language: Английский

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Effects of Fe3O4 NMs based Fenton-like reactions on biodegradable plastic bags in compost: New insight into plastisphere community succession, co-composting efficiency and free radical in situ aging theory

Journal of Hazardous Materials, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 467, P. 133689 - 133689

Published: Feb. 3, 2024

Language: Английский

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Marine degradation of plastics in western Mediterranean Sea: comparison between biodegradable and conventional polymers

Polymer Degradation and Stability, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 111222 - 111222

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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A critical review on the evaluation of toxicity and ecological risk assessment of plastics in the marine environment

The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 896, P. 164955 - 164955

Published: June 20, 2023

The increasing production of plastics together with the insufficient waste management has led to massive pollution by plastic debris in marine environment. Contrary other known pollutants, potential induce three types toxic effects: physical (e.g intestinal injuries), chemical leaching additives) and biological transfer pathogenic microorganisms). This critical review questions our capability give an effective ecological risk assessment, based on ever-growing number scientific articles last two decades acknowledging effects at all levels integration, from molecular population level. Numerous biases terms concentration, size, shape, composition microbial colonization revealed how toxicity ecotoxicity tests are still not adapted this peculiar pollutant. Suggestions improve relevance studies standards disclosed a view support future appropriate legislation.

Language: Английский

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Circular and lower impact mussel and seaweed aquaculture by a shift towards bio‐based ropes

Reviews in Aquaculture, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 15(3), P. 1010 - 1019

Published: March 28, 2023

Abstract Worldwide, current mussel and seaweed aquaculture practices contribute to the increase of fossil fuel‐based plastic gears at sea, leading marine litter microplastics generation. Smart has a great potential for shifting towards use lower impact bio‐based biodegradable gears. This review defines value chain biogears as more sustainable aquaculture, sustainability issues covering technology, environmental impacts, economy‐market, policy, social drivers their implementation. Fit purpose durability functionality attributes, end‐of‐life (EoL) options benefits are key features competitiveness versus conventional EoL management collection, sorting logistics recycling facilities is needed up cycling materials thus ensuring application principles circularity. The selection biopolymers recyclability, improvement polymerisation processes together with enhanced deployment considered factors eco‐designing circular biogears. Current policies supporting plastics in applications benefits, sustainability, healthy products, business opportunities, likewise added development Overall, can reduce negative impacts productions, while enabling bioeconomy.

Language: Английский

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Alkali, thermal, or thermo-alkali pre-treatment to improve the anaerobic digestion of poly(lactic acid)?

Water Research, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 258, P. 121744 - 121744

Published: May 6, 2024

Language: Английский

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Fostering Bioplastics Circularity through Hydrothermal Treatments: Degradation Behavior and Products

ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 12(24), P. 9257 - 9267

Published: June 4, 2024

Bioplastics are produced in growing amounts due to their environmental benefits, but disposal routes remain ambiguous. A hydrothermal treatment (HT) may be a sustainable process improve the fate of waste bioplastics, nearly no information is available on how they respond it. In this work, HT biodegradable bioplastics was performed, and resulting solid liquid products were characterized by elemental analysis, analytical pyrolysis-based techniques, ion chromatography, gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry. We selected tableware based polylactic acid (PLA), cellulose, Mater-Bi (MB) performed at 160–200 °C. MB identified as mixture PLA polybutylene succinate (PBS). Higher temperatures enhanced solubilization, which very marked for minor cellulose. Characterization residues revealed that quantitatively degraded 180 °C above, while cellulose could never fully degraded. The analysis aqueous phases from presence an array oligomers PBS low corresponding monomers (lactic succinic acid) high temperatures: recovery represent way give new life bioplastics.

Language: Английский

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Recent advances in radical polymerization of bio-based monomers in aqueous dispersed media

RSC Sustainability, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 1(4), P. 788 - 813

Published: Jan. 1, 2023

Vegetable oils and lipids, terpenes, lignin derivatives, carbohydrates, proteins are used as biomass feedstock to prepare new bio-based monomers for radical polymerization in aqueous dispersed media, producing latexes.

Language: Английский

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Farmers’ participation into the recovery of waste agricultural plastic film: An application of the Theory of Planned Behavior

Waste Management, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 169, P. 253 - 266

Published: July 21, 2023

Language: Английский

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