Recent development of end-of-life strategies for plastic in industry and academia: bridging their gap for future deployment
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Bridging the gap between academia and industry in plastic recycling will accelerate innovation and deployment toward solving the global challenge of plastic waste management and establishing net zero carbon society.
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Mechanical recycling faces bottlenecks of low separation efficiency for complex mixtures and insufficient purity of recycled pellets.
“However, this approach faces several bottlenecks: low separation efficiency for complex mixtures and insufficient purity of the recycled pellets.”
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Sections 2.4.1 and 4.1 describe mixed plastics as difficult to separate mechanically and say mechanical recycling generally requires a high-percentage, single-polymer feedstock. Section 2.2.1 describes clean, sorted flakes being extruded into pellets, but does not say the resulting pellets have insufficient purity. The pellet-purity bottleneck is therefore not established by this copy. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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- Authors
- Zheng, J., Arifuzzaman, M., Tang, X., Chen, X. C., & Saito, T.
- Affiliations
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US)
- Corresponding author
- Chen, Xi Chelsea
- Saito, Tomonori
- Venue
- Materials Horizons
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
- Published
- 2023
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1608-1624
- ISSN
- 2051-6347 (ISSN-L)
- 2051-6355
- OpenAlex
- W4362657618
- Cited by
- 73
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
- 2026: 16 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 5
- FWCI
- 1.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Materials Horizons (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy (Office of Science, Materials Sciences and Engineer)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Laboratory Directed Research and Development Progr)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Polymers and Plastics › Polymer crystallization and properties
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Waste Management and Recycling
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Keywords
- plastic waste management, plastic recycling, mechanical recycling, compatibilizer, plastic sorting, circular economy, closed-loop recycling, university-industry collaboration, carbon footprint reduction
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