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Improving markets for recycled plastics : trends, prospects and policy responses.
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ISBN: 9264301011 9264301003 Year: 2018 Publisher: Paris : OECD,

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Plastics have become one of the most prolific materials on the planet: in 2015 we produced about 380 million tonnes of plastics globally, up from 2 million tonnes in the 1950s. Yet today only 15% of this plastic waste is collected and recycled into secondary plastics globally each year. This report looks at why this is the case and what we can do about it, as the pervasiveness of plastics is becoming an urgent public health and planetary problem. Not only is the diffusion of waste plastics into the wider environment creating hugely negative impacts, but plastics production emits approximately 400 million tonnes of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions annually as a result of the energy used in their production, transport, and final waste treatment. Improved plastics collection and recycling represents a promising solution to these concerns.


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Environmental footprints of recycled products
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ISBN: 9811684251 981168426X Year: 2022 Publisher: Singapore : Springer,

Third international symposium recycling of metals and engineered materials, Alabama, November 12-15, 1995
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ISBN: 087339318X 9780873393188 Year: 1995 Publisher: Warrendale, PA : TMS (Minerals - Metals - Materials),

Improving recycling markets.
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ISBN: 1281747246 9786611747244 9264029583 9264029575 9789264029576 Year: 2006 Publisher: Paris : OECD,

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Markets for many classes of potentially recyclable materials are growing. However, market failures and barriers are constraining some markets. Factors such as information failures, technological externalities, and market power can affect the prices, quantity, and quality of materials traded. This report presents the case for the use of 'industrial' policies which address such market failures and barriers and these policies are seen as complements to more traditional environmental policies. Indeed, encouraging ever-higher recycling rates in the absence of such complementary measures may impose very high social welfare costs. This publication covers in particular the markets for waste oils, waste plastics, and used rubber tyres.


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Sustainable resource recovery and zero waste approaches
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ISBN: 0444642838 0444642005 9780444642837 9780444642004 Year: 2019 Publisher: St. Louis

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Sustainable Resource Recovery and Zero Waste Approaches covers waste reduction, biological, thermal and recycling methods of waste recovery, and their conversion into a variety of products. In addition, the social, economic and environmental aspects are also explored, making this a useful textbook for environmental courses and a reference book for both universities and companies.


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Nanomaterials recycling
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ISBN: 0323909833 9780323909839 9780323909822 0323909825 Year: 2022 Publisher: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Kidlington, Oxford ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : Elsevier,

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"Nanomaterial Recycling provides an update on the many benefits nanomaterials can provide on both environmental and economic issues. Sections cover the appropriate recycling strategies of nanowastes, nanowaste regulations (including nanowaste disposal and recycling standards), promising applications (reuses) of these recycled nanomaterials, and various methods used for the separation of nanoparticles, including (i) centrifugation, (ii)solvent evaporation, (iii) magnetic separation, (iv) using pH/thermal responsive materials, (v) molecular antisolvents, (vi) nanostructured colloidal solvents, and more. This book is an important reference source for materials scientists and engineers who are seeking to increase their understanding of nanomaterials, recycling processes and techniques."--


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Waste management and the circular economy in selected OECD countries : evidence from environmental performance reviews.
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ISBN: 9264840583 9264309381 9789264309395 926430939X Year: 2019 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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"This report provides a cross-country review of waste, materials management and circular economy policies in selected OECD countries, drawing on OECD's Environmental Performance Reviews during the period 2010-17. It presents the main achievements in the countries reviewed, along with common trends and policy challenges, and provides insights into the effectiveness and efficiency of waste, materials management and circular economy policy frameworks. As the selected reviews were published over a seven-year period, information for some countries may be more recent than for others. Nevertheless, the policy recommendations emerging from the reviews may provide useful lessons for other OECD countries and partner economies."--Page 4 of cover.


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Environmental Management in India: Waste to Wealth
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ISBN: 3030938964 3030938972 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This book presents unique connectivity between waste management within the agenda 2030 of India. This book is the first publication presenting up-to-date work and knowledge about waste management and waste technologies to transfer waste to wealth in India. Besides, this book also presents the role of waste management and its contribution to achieving a sustainable development program in India, with vast implication worldwide. The main focuses of the book include waste and wealth and the associated technologies, recycling of solid waste, utilization of hazardous waste, use of nanoparticle in waste management, urban solid waste, generation of energy from organic waste, clean technologies, and use of waste in agriculture. The book is a unique source of information on the transformation of waste to wealth in India. This book is of interest to research communities in the field of waste management in India, and in similar socioeconomic countries, but also, due to the planetary implications, has global interest.

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