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5 books on Plastic Recycling [PDF]
May 06, 2025 | 27 |
These books are covering the history of plastic waste, innovative recycling techniques, global environmental impacts, challenges in waste management, the economics of recycling, etc.
1. Plastic Waste and Recycling: Environmental Impact, Societal Issues, Prevention, and Solutions
2020 by Trevor M. Letcher
In a world where plastic seems to outlive the stars and your coffee cup has a half-life rivaling plutonium, Trevor M. Letcher presents Plastic Waste and Recycling: Environmental Impact, Societal Issues, Prevention and Solutions—a guide to the sprawling soap opera of polymers and their many questionable life choices. From the glamorous rise of non-degradable plastics to the biodegradable underdogs and bioplastics plotting their environmental redemption arcs, this book dives deep into the labyrinthine world of our favorite synthetic troublemakers. It unravels the tragicomic tale of waste as it sneaks into ecosystems, from rivers to dinner plates, while proposing mind-bending strategies like monomerization (not a villain from *Doctor Who*), blast furnace feedstocks (as dramatic as they sound) and alchemical feats like turning old bags into valuable fuels. If you’ve ever suspected your single-use fork was secretly plotting world domination, this indispensable compendium—tailored for polymer enthusiasts, eco-warriors and bewildered students—is the hitchhiker’s guide to taming the chaos of plastic.
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2. Plastic Waste Markets: Overcoming barriers to better resource utilisation
2018 by David McKinnon, Ioannis Bakas
In the sprawling and slightly chaotic universe of plastic waste, Plastic Waste Markets: Overcoming Barriers to Better Resource Utilisation focuses on the wilder and more unpredictable species known as post-consumer plastic—think of it as the hitchhiker of the recycling world, desperately thumbing a ride to usefulness. While manufacturing plastics enjoy a neat and orderly recycling existence, post-consumer plastic is a tangled mess of types, colors and bad decisions, making collection and sorting a task better suited to mad scientists or very patient robots. This book boldly ventures into the labyrinth of this unruly market, identifying the peculiar barriers that keep recycled plastics from fulfilling their destiny. Armed with a toolkit of policy ideas, it proposes strategies to tame the chaos and create a market so efficient, even the most cynical pieces of plastic might believe in second chances. It’s a guide for anyone hoping to navigate—and perhaps fix—the wonderfully weird world of plastic recycling.
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3. Plastics Fabrication and Recycling
2016 by Manas Chanda, Salil K. Roy
If you’ve ever looked at a piece of plastic and thought, How on Earth did this happen?, then Plastics Fabrication and Recycling might just be your definitive answer, provided you’ve got a sturdy chair and an inordinate love for molds, dies and very long sentences. From the majestic drama of injection molding to the downright operatic complexities of pultrusion (which is either a molding technique or an intergalactic crime syndicate, we’re not entirely sure), this book leaves no polymer unturned. It even takes a jaunty detour through the art of bedazzling your plastics with painting, embossing, or vacuum metallizing—because why shouldn’t your waste look fabulous? And as the grand finale, it tackles the Herculean task of recycling plastic with a mix of optimism and just enough existential dread to remind you why you still haven’t thrown out that old yogurt pot. It’s part handbook, part epic saga and entirely too fascinating to put down.
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4. Future solutions for Nordic plastic recycling
2015 by Anna Fråne, Åsa Stenmarck, Stefán Gíslason, Søren Løkke, Malin zu Castell Rüdenhausen, Hanne L Raadal, Margareta Wahlström
In a galaxy not terribly far away—let's call it the Nordic region—an ambitious collective of thinkers and recyclers have embarked on a heroic quest to tame the unruly beast known as plastic waste. Future Solutions for Nordic Plastic Recycling is their hitchhiker’s guide to a cleaner tomorrow, packed with ingenious ideas like transforming mundane household junk into shiny new things and conjuring up transparent markets where recycled plastics can prance freely. With a touch of inter-Nordic wizardry, they propose sorting systems so adaptable they might as well wear pajamas to work and collection schemes so accessible even a Vogon could figure them out. It’s all part of a masterplan to ensure Nordic nations lead the universe—or at least the planet—in green growth, a cosmic effort chronicled at the improbably titled www.nordicway.org. Don’t panic, they’ve got this.
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5. Introduction to Plastics Recycling
2007 by Vannessa Goodship
In a universe teetering on the edge of environmental calamity—largely due to an ill-advised abundance of plastic carrier bags and an inexplicable human fondness for single-use items—Introduction to Plastics Recycling swoops in with all the subtlety of a Vogon constructor fleet and just as much urgency. This updated edition tackles the wild and improbable journey of plastics, from their dubious origins to their reincarnation through mechanical recycling, with a particular nod to the UK’s valiant (and occasionally baffling) infrastructure upgrades. It even dares to ponder whether biopolymers, those perplexing upstarts in the plastic galaxy, will finally tip the scales in the endless biodegradability-versus-recycling debate. Along the way, it pokes at council indecision over bottle recycling, supermarket shenanigans with free bags and the galaxy's penchant for ignoring life cycle analysis until it's too late. All this, plus a dash of legislative intrigue, makes this book the Hitchhiker’s Guide to plastics recycling—minus the towel, but with plenty of deeply meaningful rubbish.
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1. Plastic Waste and Recycling: Environmental Impact, Societal Issues, Prevention, and Solutions
2020 by Trevor M. Letcher
In a world where plastic seems to outlive the stars and your coffee cup has a half-life rivaling plutonium, Trevor M. Letcher presents Plastic Waste and Recycling: Environmental Impact, Societal Issues, Prevention and Solutions—a guide to the sprawling soap opera of polymers and their many questionable life choices. From the glamorous rise of non-degradable plastics to the biodegradable underdogs and bioplastics plotting their environmental redemption arcs, this book dives deep into the labyrinthine world of our favorite synthetic troublemakers. It unravels the tragicomic tale of waste as it sneaks into ecosystems, from rivers to dinner plates, while proposing mind-bending strategies like monomerization (not a villain from *Doctor Who*), blast furnace feedstocks (as dramatic as they sound) and alchemical feats like turning old bags into valuable fuels. If you’ve ever suspected your single-use fork was secretly plotting world domination, this indispensable compendium—tailored for polymer enthusiasts, eco-warriors and bewildered students—is the hitchhiker’s guide to taming the chaos of plastic.
Download PDF
2. Plastic Waste Markets: Overcoming barriers to better resource utilisation
2018 by David McKinnon, Ioannis Bakas
In the sprawling and slightly chaotic universe of plastic waste, Plastic Waste Markets: Overcoming Barriers to Better Resource Utilisation focuses on the wilder and more unpredictable species known as post-consumer plastic—think of it as the hitchhiker of the recycling world, desperately thumbing a ride to usefulness. While manufacturing plastics enjoy a neat and orderly recycling existence, post-consumer plastic is a tangled mess of types, colors and bad decisions, making collection and sorting a task better suited to mad scientists or very patient robots. This book boldly ventures into the labyrinth of this unruly market, identifying the peculiar barriers that keep recycled plastics from fulfilling their destiny. Armed with a toolkit of policy ideas, it proposes strategies to tame the chaos and create a market so efficient, even the most cynical pieces of plastic might believe in second chances. It’s a guide for anyone hoping to navigate—and perhaps fix—the wonderfully weird world of plastic recycling.
Download PDF
3. Plastics Fabrication and Recycling
2016 by Manas Chanda, Salil K. Roy
If you’ve ever looked at a piece of plastic and thought, How on Earth did this happen?, then Plastics Fabrication and Recycling might just be your definitive answer, provided you’ve got a sturdy chair and an inordinate love for molds, dies and very long sentences. From the majestic drama of injection molding to the downright operatic complexities of pultrusion (which is either a molding technique or an intergalactic crime syndicate, we’re not entirely sure), this book leaves no polymer unturned. It even takes a jaunty detour through the art of bedazzling your plastics with painting, embossing, or vacuum metallizing—because why shouldn’t your waste look fabulous? And as the grand finale, it tackles the Herculean task of recycling plastic with a mix of optimism and just enough existential dread to remind you why you still haven’t thrown out that old yogurt pot. It’s part handbook, part epic saga and entirely too fascinating to put down.
Download PDF
4. Future solutions for Nordic plastic recycling
2015 by Anna Fråne, Åsa Stenmarck, Stefán Gíslason, Søren Løkke, Malin zu Castell Rüdenhausen, Hanne L Raadal, Margareta Wahlström
In a galaxy not terribly far away—let's call it the Nordic region—an ambitious collective of thinkers and recyclers have embarked on a heroic quest to tame the unruly beast known as plastic waste. Future Solutions for Nordic Plastic Recycling is their hitchhiker’s guide to a cleaner tomorrow, packed with ingenious ideas like transforming mundane household junk into shiny new things and conjuring up transparent markets where recycled plastics can prance freely. With a touch of inter-Nordic wizardry, they propose sorting systems so adaptable they might as well wear pajamas to work and collection schemes so accessible even a Vogon could figure them out. It’s all part of a masterplan to ensure Nordic nations lead the universe—or at least the planet—in green growth, a cosmic effort chronicled at the improbably titled www.nordicway.org. Don’t panic, they’ve got this.
Download PDF
5. Introduction to Plastics Recycling
2007 by Vannessa Goodship
In a universe teetering on the edge of environmental calamity—largely due to an ill-advised abundance of plastic carrier bags and an inexplicable human fondness for single-use items—Introduction to Plastics Recycling swoops in with all the subtlety of a Vogon constructor fleet and just as much urgency. This updated edition tackles the wild and improbable journey of plastics, from their dubious origins to their reincarnation through mechanical recycling, with a particular nod to the UK’s valiant (and occasionally baffling) infrastructure upgrades. It even dares to ponder whether biopolymers, those perplexing upstarts in the plastic galaxy, will finally tip the scales in the endless biodegradability-versus-recycling debate. Along the way, it pokes at council indecision over bottle recycling, supermarket shenanigans with free bags and the galaxy's penchant for ignoring life cycle analysis until it's too late. All this, plus a dash of legislative intrigue, makes this book the Hitchhiker’s Guide to plastics recycling—minus the towel, but with plenty of deeply meaningful rubbish.
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How to download PDF:
1. Install Google Books Downloader
2. Enter Book ID to the search box and press Enter
3. Click "Download Book" icon and select PDF*
* - note that for yellow books only preview pages are downloaded
