Journal of Environmental Waste Management and Recycling

All submissions of the EM system will be redirected to Online Manuscript Submission System. Authors are requested to submit articles directly to Online Manuscript Submission System of respective journal.
Reach Us +44 1518081136

Short Communication - Journal of Environmental Waste Management and Recycling (2023) Volume 6, Issue 3

Plastic waste management: addressing the environmental crisis.

Maria Urfi*

Department of Environmental Engineering and Materials Science, Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Corresponding Author:
Maria Urfi
Department of Environmental Engineering and Materials Science
Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
E-mail: maria.10081@student.itera.gov.tw

Received: 21-Apr-2023, Manuscript No. AAEWMR-23-97784; Editor assigned: 22-Apr-2023, PreQC No. AAEWMR-23-97784(PQ); Reviewed: 06-May-2023, QC No.AAEWMR-23-97784; Revised: 10-May-2023, Manuscript No. AAEWMR-23-97784(R); Published: 17-May-2023, DOI:10.35841/AAEWMR-6.3.145

Citation: Urfi M. Plastic waste management: addressing the environmental crisis. Environ Waste Management Recycling. 2023;6(3):145

Plastics are a critical element of our current lives because of their extensive variety of programs in families and industry. Worldwide plastic manufacturing is anticipated at round 1.1 billion heaps of plastic in 2050. The boom in hobby in plastics as uncooked substances in diverse sectors comes from its ease of handling, transparency, and cost-effectiveness. Plastics have shown top notch packaging overall performance for food, confectioneries, chemical products, and medicinal products. Around 40% of plastic substances global are used to keep and package deal finished gadgets from diverse factories. Nevertheless, massive plastic waste is generated, because of its mass consumption. Packaging is the most extensive contributor to global plastic waste, contributing to approximately 50% of the whole weight. Plastic waste from thermoplastic, thermoset, and elastomers of polymeric substances aren't without problems degraded and will become ample via way of means of generating number one environmental contamination [1].

Moreover, the immoderate quantity of plastics generated over the past century, and terrible waste control, has raised worries approximately the depletion of fossil sources, the destruction of marine and terrestrial ecosystems, and weather change. Therefore, the software of right plastic waste control is crucial to fixing sustainability and environmental issues. To date, plastic waste control has received extra attention global because of its effect on human existence sustainability. Typical plastic waste control techniques encompass landfills, incineration, microbial decomposition, thermal decomposition, mechanical pulverization, and recycling. Rapid and powerful identity and class of separate combinations of waste plastic is tough and this may be a critical element withinside the waste plastic industry. Therefore, plastic waste is specifically disposed of in landfills and discharged into the environment. These wastes, mainly plastic packaging, come to be in rivers and seas, posing a extensive chance to aquatic habitats. Landfill is turning into an increasing number of costly, because the quantity of waste will increase and landfill ability decreases [2].

Meanwhile, incineration is normally used withinside the electricity recycling of plastic waste, for the reason that a extensive quantity of electricity may be recovered, and the electricity may be applied to generate electricity, combined heat, power, or for different operations. However, recycling waste plastics via way of means of incineration may be harmful, due to the fact diverse poisonous components. Among these techniques, plastic waste recycling concurrently gives an appropriate and environmentally pleasant approach. Plastic waste recycling refers back to the waste control technique that collects plastic waste substances and turns them into uncooked substances reused to supply different treasured products. Recycling isn't simplest a technique for doing away with plastic waste, however it's also an powerful technique to reduce the want for virgin plastics, that could assist reduce worldwide warming. According to the ASTM Standard D5033, plastic recycling may be classified as number one, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary recycling [3].

Based at the mechanism of the techniques, plastic waste recycling may be categorized as mechanical, chemical, and organic recycling. Mechanical recycling is frequently categorized as number one or secondary recycling, and chemical and organic recycling is normally categorized as tertiary and quaternary recycling. Each approach has its advantages and disadvantages, relying at the consumer wishes. Another thing required withinside the recycling of plastic waste is the separation of the unique substances. For instance, PVC withinside the PET extrusion technique damages the equipment, because of chlorine, lowering product qualities, consisting of shadeation and viscosity. This evaluates objectives to talk about the contemporary-day era of mechanical and chemical plastic waste recycling, to lessen plastic waste accumulation in the environment [4].

Among numerous recycling techniques, mechanical and chemical are common techniques used for plastic waste recycling. Several studies have evolved mechanical and chemical plastic recycling techniques to replace landfill and incineration techniques. The chemical recycling of plastic waste relies upon at the degradation of the polymer chains. Meanwhile, mechanical recycling of plastic waste generally ends in re-granulation. Furthermore, this evaluate makes a specialty of the recycling approach in widespread and the suitability of every recycling approach for diverse varieties of plastic waste. In addition, the identity and separation techniques of clean plastic waste from the environment, till equipped to be recycled, can also be discussed. The separation of diverse substances wishes to arise earlier than the real recycling technique. A higher know-how of every plastic waste recycling approach is essential for policymakers with a purpose to decide the right techniques to remedy the extensive plastic waste issue [5].

References

  1. Zhou XL, He PJ, Peng W, et al. Upcycling waste polyvinyl chloride: One-pot synthesis of valuable carbon materials and pipeline-quality syngas via pyrolysis in a closed reactor. J Hazard Mater. 2022;427:128210.

    2. Indexed at, Google Scholar, Cross Ref

  2. Kemona A, Piotrowska M. Polyurethane recycling and disposal: Methods and prospects. Polymers. 2020;12(8):1752.

    3. Indexed at, Google Scholar, Cross Ref

  3. Marson A, Masiero M, Modesti M, et al. Life Cycle Assessment of Polyurethane Foams from Polyols Obtained through Chemical Recycling. ACS Omega. 2021;6(2):1718-24.

    4. Indexed at, Google Scholar, Cross Ref

  4. Geyer R, Jambeck JR, Law KL. Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made. Sci Adv. 2017;3(7):e1700782.

    5. Indexed at, Google Scholar, Cross Ref

  5. Serranti S, Luciani V, Bonifazi G, et al. An innovative recycling process to obtain pure polyethylene and polypropylene from household waste. Waste Manag. 2015;35:12-20.

    6. Indexed at, Google Scholar, Cross Ref

Get the App