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Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

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Sustainable polymers from renewable resources

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Chemical recycling of waste plastics for new materials production

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Biodegradable Polymers for the Environment

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The future of plastics recycling

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Strategies to reduce the global carbon footprint of plastics

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Current progress on bio-based polymers and their future trends

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Chemically recyclable polymers: a circular economy approach to sustainability

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Does it matter which Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool you choose? – a comparative assessment of SimaPro and GaBi

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The promise of plastics from plants

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Designed to degrade

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Combining Reclaimed PET with Bio-based Monomers Enables Plastics Upcycling

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Enabling Applications of Covalent Adaptable Networks

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Applied Polymer Science: 21st Century

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Bioprivileged molecules: creating value from biomass

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Plastics in the US: toward a material flow characterization of production, markets and end of life

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Physical and chemical modifications of poly(vinyl chloride) materials to prevent plasticizer migration - Still on the run

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Advanced Polyethylene Technologies—Controlled Material Properties

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Poly(ethylene terephthalate)

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Polypropylene and Other Polyolefins

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Ingested Micronizing Plastic Particle Compositions and Size Distributions within Stranded Post-Hatchling Sea Turtles

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Cleaning up plastic pollution in Africa

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Unsaturated Polyesters and Vinyl Esters

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Poly(Butylene Terephthalate)

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Evaluating opportunities to improve material and energy impacts in commodity supply chains

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Bio-based polymers with performance-advantaged properties

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Expanding plastics recycling technologies: chemical aspects, technology status and challenges

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Design principles for intrinsically circular polymers with tunable properties

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Tandem Heterogeneous Catalysis for Polyethylene Depolymerization via an Olefin-Intermediate Process

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Recent development of end-of-life strategies for plastic in industry and academia: bridging their gap for future deployment

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Installing Controlled Stereo-Defects Yields Semicrystalline and Biodegradable Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate) with High Toughness and Optical Clarity

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The power of good decisions: promoting eco-informed design attitudes in plastic selection and use

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Regulating the stereomicrostructure, circularity and functionality of synthetic PHAs

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Functional carbon materials from waste plastics: synthesis and applications

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Spectrum analysis of national greenhouse gas emission: a case study of Germany

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Investigation into Methods for reducing Greenhouse Gas Emission in Paper Industry with Development of Greenhouse Gas Inventory

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Controlling and Monitoring Greenhouse Gas Emissions using CPS and GHG Sensors

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Greenhouse gas emissions disclosure by cities: the expectation gap

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Assessment of the applicability of methodological guidelines and guidelines for the quantitative determination of greenhouse gas emissions

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