ArticleACS sustainable chemistry & engineering2022
Recycling of Plastics in the United States: Plastic Material Flows and Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Recycling Processes.
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25 citing papers in PubMed.
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- From Circularity to Spirality: An Integrated, Systems-Level Approach to Address the Plastics Problem.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025Review
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- An Advanced CNN-Based Framework for the Automated Detection of Uncovered PET in Recycling Streams.Polymers · 2025Article
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- Recent Advances in Environment-Friendly Polyurethanes from Polyols Recovered from the Recycling and Renewable Resources: A Review.Polymers · 2024Review
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- Material Flow Analysis and Occupational Exposure Assessment in Additive Manufacturing End-of-Life Material Management.Environmental science & technology · 2024Article
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Abstract
As efforts are made toward establishing a circular economy that engages in activities that maintain resources at their highest values for as long as possible, an important aspect is understanding the systems which allow recycling to occur. In this article a common plastic, polyethylene terephthalate, i.e., PET or plastic #1, has been studied because it is recycled at relatively high rates in the U.S. as compared to other plastics. A material flow analysis is described for PET resin showing materials collected, reclaimed for flake, and converted into items with recycled content. Imports/exports, reclaimer residue, and disposal with mismanaged waste are all shown for U.S. flows of PET. Barriers to recycling PET exist in the collecting, sorting, reclaiming, and converting steps, and this article describes them, offers some solutions, and suggests some research that chemists and engineers could focus on to improve the systems. This effort also models sorting at material recovery facilities (MRF) and reclaimers, with detailed descriptions of the material streams involved, to characterize the resource use and emissions from these operations that are key processes in the recycling system. Example results include greenhouse gas intensities of 8.58 kg CO
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