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Plastic Waste Recycling, Applications, and Future Prospects for a Sustainable Environment
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Plastic waste accumulation has been recognized as one of the most critical challenges of modern societies worldwide. Traditional waste management practices include open burning, landfilling, and incineration, resulting in greenhouse gas emissions and economic loss. In contrast, emerging techniques for plastic waste management include microwave-assisted conversion, plasma-assisted conversion, supercritical water conversion, and photo reforming to obtain high-value products. Problems with poorly managed plastic waste are particularly serious in developing countries. This review article examines the emerging strategies and production of various high-value-added products from plastic waste. Additionally, the uses of plastic waste in different sectors, such as construction, fuel production, wastewater treatment, electrode materials, carbonaceous nanomaterials, and other high-value-added products are reviewed. It has been observed that there is a pressing need to utilize plastic waste for a circular economy and recycling for different value-added products. More specifically, there is limited knowledge on emerging plastic waste conversion mechanisms and efficiency. Therefore, this review will help to highlight the negative environmental impacts of plastic waste accumulation and the importance of modern techniques for waste management.
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- Maitlo, G., Ali, I., Maitlo, H. A., Ali, S., Unar, I. N., Ahmad, M. B., Bhutto, D. K., Karmani, R. K., Naich, S. U. R., Sajjad, R. U., Ali, S., & Afridi, M. N.
- Affiliations
- Dawood University of Engineering and Technology (PK)
- Sindh Madressatul Islam University (PK)
- Nankai University (CN)
- Iqra University (PK)
- Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (PK)
- Xi'an Jiaotong University (CN)
- Hazara University (PK)
- Hanyang University (KR)
- Corresponding author
- Maitlo, Ghulamullah
- Ali, Imran
- ORCID
- Venue
- Sustainability
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2022-09-16
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 18
- Pages
- 11637
- ISSN
- 2071-1050 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4296455977
- Cited by
- 143
- References
- 214
- Citations by year
- 2026: 34 · 2025: 47 · 2024: 45 · 2023: 17
- FWCI
- 6.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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- Sustainability (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Waste Management and Recycling
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production
- Keywords
- plastic recycling, plastic waste management, high-value-added products, circular economy, wastewater treatment, electrode materials, carbon nanomaterials, greenhouse gas emissions, developing countries
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