Possibilities for the Recovery and Valorization of Single-Use EPS Packaging Waste Following Its Increasing Generation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study in Brazil

Palombini, Felipe Luis; Cidade, Mariana Kuhl

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-4609-6_10

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“…The increase in sales recorded since 2020 (by 40% compared to 2019) resulted in an increase in the amount of packaging used. Palombini and Cidade [47] report that due to the development of the e-commerce industry in Brazil in 2020 and 2021, a significant increase in the amount of polymeric packaging waste was observed. In comparison to March 2019, in the early pandemic stages, packaged food sales in European countries such as Italy, France, and the United Kingdom increased even to nearly 70% [48].…”

Section: E-commerce and Packaging Wastementioning

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Sustainable Municipal Waste Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic—A Case Study of Poland

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With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the waste management sector had to face new challenges, e.g., changes in the size and composition of the waste stream, or the presence of potentially infectious waste. This article is based on a case study in Poland. The data analysis showed that the increase in municipal waste mass during the pandemic did not differ from statistics observed in previous years and ranged from 0.3 to 0.5 million tons per year. Lifestyle changes caused a decrease in the amount of waste generated outside households. Social migrations contributed to rapid changes in the mass of waste generated in selected agglomerations by up to 80 kg/capita. In the waste stream, significant amounts of specific groups of waste related to the pandemic (“corona waste”) as well as packaging and food waste were noted. Despite the pandemic, in 2020, Poland recorded an increase in selective waste collection by 6.7 percentage points (pp.) Data on municipal waste management showed an increase in the mass of waste sent for recycling by 0.7 million tons, while the mass of landfilled waste decreased by 0.3 million tons. The observed positive changes in waste management allow the implementation of sustainable development assumptions to a greater extent.

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“…The development of new products from recycled EPS has been reported in the literature substantially; e.g., in the production of ceramic coating foams [46], in construction [47][48][49][50][51][52], in natural fiber/polymer composites [53], in composite [54], as a gemstone for application in contemporary jewelry using silver recovered from scrap sources [55], in resin for wood [56], modified castor oil [57], in the form of beads on the ground [58], adhesives for paper and wood [59], in nanofibers with chitosan as an adsorbent in the removal of lead (II) from water [60], in a fibrous mat for air filter media [61], as thermal insulation material [62]. However, the development of an optimal adhesive for the footwear industry from recycled EPS from the packaging industry is unknown by assessing the qualitative quality perceived by the experts on the production line.…”

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Development of an Adhesive Based on Waste Management as a Mechanism Towards Sustainability

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Plastic pollution is an alarming issue; it is a phenomenon that, in addition to altering health, is capable of generating damage to the environment. It is estimated that only 8% of plastics are recycled and that 76% end up in landfill sites or are indiscriminately disposed of into the environment. “Single-use” plastics contribute the most to the generation of pollution due their short “life cycle” since after their useful life, they are discarded. Expanded Polystyrene (EPS), one of the plastics with the greatest use as a packaging material, has a complicated recycling process due to its volume and weight characteristics. Based on the above, following the Circular Economy model, the optimal development of an adhesive for the cut-sole union is addressed through the analysis by classified attributes using an orthogonal array L9(3)4 of Taguchi. Of the factors under study, it was determined that the “adhesive formulation” is the factor that statistically significantly influences the degree of adhesion of the cut-sole, followed by the “type of sole”. The adhesive with post-consumer EPS is viable and contributes to minimizing the environmental pollution footprint as a strategy toward sustainability.

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Possibilities for the Recovery and Valorization of Single-Use EPS Packaging Waste Following Its Increasing Generation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study in Brazil

Cited by 5 publications

References 37 publications

Sustainable Municipal Waste Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic—A Case Study of Poland

Sustainable Municipal Waste Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic—A Case Study of Poland

Development of an Adhesive Based on Waste Management as a Mechanism Towards Sustainability

Bionics for Inspiration: A New Look at Brazilian Natural Materials for Application in Sustainable Jewelry

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