A Practical Guide to Plastics Sustainability: Concept, Solutions, and Implementation

by Michel Biron

Overview

A Practical Guide to Plastics Sustainability: Concept, Solutions, and Implementation is a groundbreaking reference work offering a broad, detailed and highly practical vision of the complex concept of sustainability in plastics. The book's aim is to present a range of potential pathways towards more sustainable plastics parts and products, enabling the reader to further integrate the idea of sustainability into their design process. It begins by introducing the context and concept of sustainability, discussing perceptions, drivers of change, key factors, and environmental issues, before presenting a detailed outline of the current situation with types of plastics, processing, and opportunities for improved sustainability.

Subsequent chapters focus on the different possibilities for improved sustainability, offering a step-by-step technical approach to areas including design, properties, renewable plastics, and recycling and re-use. Each of these pillars are supported by data, examples, analysis and best practice guidance. Finally, the latest developments and future possibilities are considered.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128215395
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	04/24/2020
Series:	Plastics Design Library
Pages:	690
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michel Biron is a plastics consultant based in Les Ulis, France, and is a Graduate Chemist Engineer from the Institut National Supérieur de Chimie Industrielle

de Rouen and Polymer Specialist from the Institut Français du Caoutchouc. He has authored numerous technical papers and books on plastics.

Table of Contents

1. An Overview of Sustainability and Plastics: A Multifaceted, Relative and Scalable concept 2. Plastics Overview: Outline of the Current Situation of Plastics 3. Metrics of Sustainability in Plastics: Indicators, Standards, and Software 4. Easy Measures Relating to Improved Plastics Sustainability 5. Eco-design Rules for Plastics Sustainability 6. Environmental and Engineering Data to Support Eco-design for Plastics 7. Advanced Environmental and Engineering Properties to Support Eco-design for Plastics 8. Economics Relating to Fossil and Renewable Plastics 9. Recycling of Plastics, Advantages and Limitation of Use 10. Transition of Plastics to Renewable Feedstock and Raw Materials 11. Plastics Sustainability: Drivers and Obstacles 12. Plastics Sustainability: Prospective

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A comprehensive guide to improved sustainability of plastic products, offering an arsenal of possible approaches and solutions