Forecasting plastic waste generation and interventions for environmental hazard mitigation

Fan, Yee Van; Jiang, Peng; Tan, Raymond R.; Aviso, Kathleen B.; You, Fengqi; Zhao, Xiang; Lee, Chew Tin; Klemeš, Jiří Jaromír

doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.127330

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“…Effective recycling strategies and the trade-offs between the recycling and reuse should be developed. , Besides environmental hazards, microplastics can endanger human welfare, human health, and the economy. Specifically, food intake, air inhalation, and water drinking have been proven to be three major microplastic intake pathways resulting in microplastic accumulation in human bodies. − These microplastics can pose lifetime human health hazards given the current microplastic toxicological studies on human organs, including digestion problems in the intestines . Moreover, microplastics can pose ecotoxicity to aquaculture species and result in economic value losses, such as a €586,000-equivalent loss of the Dungeness crabs from Puget Sound, Washington .…”

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Life Cycle Assessment of Microplastics Reveals Their Greater Environmental Hazards than Mismanaged Polymer Waste Losses

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2022

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Concern about microplastic pollution sourced from mismanaged plastic waste losses to drainage basins is growing but lacks relevant environmental impact analyses. Here, we reveal and compare the environmental hazards of aquatic macro- and microplastic debris through a holistic life cycle assessment approach. Compared to polymeric debris, microplastics, especially smaller than 10 μm, exhibit higher freshwater ecotoxicity enhanced by watersheds’ high average depth and low water temperature. High microplastic concentration within drainage basins can also cause air pollution regarding particulate matter formation and photochemical ozone formation. The environmental drawbacks of plastic mismanagement are then demonstrated by showing that the microplastic formulation and removal in drinking water treatment plants can pose more than 7.44% of the total ecotoxicity effect from plastic wastes’ (microplastics’) whole life cycle. Specifically, these two life cycle stages can also cause more than 50% of the plastic wastes’ life cycle ecotoxicity effect related to organic chemical emissions. Therefore, reducing environmentally harmful plastic losses through advanced plastic waste recycling, collection, and effective microplastic removal technologies needs future investigation.

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Life Cycle Assessment of Microplastics Reveals Their Greater Environmental Hazards than Mismanaged Polymer Waste Losses

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2022

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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“…Plastic waste has reached 6.9 billion tons on a global scale, and every year 34 million tons of plastic waste are produced, with up to 93% of that waste ending up in a landfill or the ocean [1][2]. Fan et al predicted in the year 2040, it is estimated that 710 Mt of plastic waste will be disposed of and pollute the surface and groundwater sources [3]. Java Island produces 189,349 tons per month of plastic waste, and the Malang regions generate 4,829.77 tons per month [4].…”

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Degradable Bioplastic Developed from Pine-Wood Nanocellulose as a Filler Combined with Orange Peel Extract

2023

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This research presents the degradable bioplastics developed from pinewood nanocellulose as a filler in PVA matrices. The steps involve the isolation and characterization of cellulose and nanocellulose. Meanwhile, the manufacturing of degradable bioplastic involves the combination of PVA, nanocellulose, and with or without orange peel extract. The effect of bioplastics without the addition of citric acid and orange peel extract is also reported as a comparison. It is found that orange peel extract improves the tensile strength (1708.54 kPa), elastic modulus (42.71 kPa), elongation (40%), and degradability (78.44% in 2 weeks) compared to bioplastic without the orange peel extract. These results indicate that orange peel extract acts as a reinforcing agent in PVA-nanocellulose bioplastic.

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“…The intensive development of polymer science has led today to a situation of impossibility of further safe use of synthetic polymers for mankind, since the volumes of produced and used plastics exceed the real possibilities of living nature to utilize this entire array of artificial materials created by man. A huge amount of slowly decomposing plastics in the environment is a serious environmental hazard [2,3].…”

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Kinetics of biodegradation of strengthening polymer systems based on copolymers of lactic acid and biogenic activators

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Ivankin²,

Zarubina³

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The production of bioplastics based on copolymers of maleic anhydride with the addition of lactic acid and furyl alcohol is described. The obtained copolymers are promising for use as reinforcing polymer systems of cellulose-containing materials used in packaging. It has been shown that the use of lactic acid and furyl alcohol makes it possible to obtain synthetic bioplastics that are rapidly degradable in natural conditions, which is favorable for environmental protection.

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Forecasting plastic waste generation and interventions for environmental hazard mitigation

Cited by 83 publications

References 55 publications

Life Cycle Assessment of Microplastics Reveals Their Greater Environmental Hazards than Mismanaged Polymer Waste Losses

Life Cycle Assessment of Microplastics Reveals Their Greater Environmental Hazards than Mismanaged Polymer Waste Losses

Degradable Bioplastic Developed from Pine-Wood Nanocellulose as a Filler Combined with Orange Peel Extract

Kinetics of biodegradation of strengthening polymer systems based on copolymers of lactic acid and biogenic activators

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