Plastic Fruit Stickers in Industrial Composting─Surface and Structural Alterations Revealed by Electron Microscopy and Computed Tomography
Max Groß,
Matthias Mail,
Olivia Wrigley
et al.
Abstract:Often large quantities of plastics are found in compost, with price look-up stickers being a major but littleexplored component in the contamination path. Stickers glued to fruit or vegetable peels usually remain attached to the organic material despite sorting processes in the composting plant. Here, we investigated the effects of industrial composting on the structural alterations of these stickers. Commercial polypropylene (PP) stickers on banana peels were added to a typical organic material mixture for pr… Show more
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