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Plastic waste is a significant environmental concern, constituting a major portion of the global waste stream. Improper disposal and accumulation have led to severe environmental challenges, including pollution, harm to ...

Plastic debris in the marine environment is widely documented, but the quantity of plastic entering the ocean from waste generated on land is unknown. By linking worldwide data on solid waste, population density, and eco...

Waste materials from agricultural and food packaging usage pose significant health and environmental challenges, where the main source of waste originates from plastics and protein-based amino acids, and their thermal de...

The Turkish Straits System (TSS) is a dangerous and narrow waterway extending between the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea, including the Bosphorus, the Dardanelles, and the Marmara Sea and the Gulf of Izmit. The western ban...

Disposable absorbent hygiene products, particularly diapers, are a major contributor to global plastic waste. Focusing on high-priority strategies within the EU's waste hierarchy, waste prevention and reuse, we examine t...

This study aims to determine the comparison of oil yields obtained from processing HDPE plastic waste by comparing quantitatively and qualitatively the fuel oil produced. The processing of plastic waste into oil by pyrol...

This research aims to develop polyurethane foam using recycled PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) and HDPE (High-Density Polyethylene) plastic bottles as substitutes for polyol. Waste PET bottles were recycled through a gl...

Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), such as small/big home appliances, TVs, computers and smartphones, has turnedinto a significant and growing pollution issue. WEEE is a complex mixture of materials a...

The asphalt industry faces growing challenges from stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction mandates and diminishing high-quality virgin material reserves. This review paper positions upcycling as the engineered transfor...

Plastic waste pollution is one of the most significant global challenges today, and it is urgent to reduce, mitigate, and assess its levels in various environmental matrices and priority areas. Coastal aquatic environmen...

Planet Under Strain: When Balance Breaks guides students on an interdisciplinary journey to understand the impact of pollution and the fragility of marine ecosystems, using Sunakay by Martí Meritxell as its structural a...

Plastic pollution is considered an important environmental problem by the United Nations Environment Programme, and it is identified, alongside climate change, as an emerging issue that might affect biological diversity ...

Current shampoo bottles are oversized, using more plastic than necessary. In order to promote plastic minimization, the aim of this work is to determine how much it is possible to reduce the thickness of current shampoo ...

Managing plastic waste is still a big environmental problem, especially in schools where students need to learn to care about the environment from a young age. This study investigates the execution of a zero waste-orient...

Environmental pollution caused by non-biodegradable plastic waste has become a major global concern, prompting the development of eco-friendly alternative materials. Bioplastics derived from natural polymers are consider...

Abstract Accumulation of plastic waste presents a global environmental crisis, posing severe threats to ecosystems. Depolymerization offers a promising route for closed-loop recycling of plastic waste. Nevertheless, depo...

As a sustainable alternative to using virgin polymer, we propose the use of recycled polymer for the fabrication of passive radiative cooling materials to tackle both the increasing demand for cooling systems and to upcy...

El poliestireno (PS) y las poliolefinas (PO) tales como el polietileno (PE) y el polipropileno (PP), son componentes mayoritarios de los residuos plásticos urbanos. Reciclarlos conjuntamente, evitando la separación pre...

One of the most ubiquitous and long-lasting recent changes to the surface of our planet is the accumulation and fragmentation of plastics. Within just a few decades since mass production of plastic products commenced in ...

Plastics have outgrown most man-made materials and have long been under environmental scrutiny. However, robust global information, particularly about their end-of-life fate, is lacking. By identifying and synthesizing d...

Organic waste is currently causing a huge challenge for the planet. For many years, managing waste was mostly about dumping it in landfills. On the other hand, anaerobic digestion is now proving to be a good solution for...

Effective domestic waste separation is also very critical to enhancing recycling and minimizing environmental pollution. Manual sorting, however, is labor-intensive, prone to errors and not practical to be widely adopted...