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ReviewPolymers2022

Recycled (Bio)Plastics and (Bio)Plastic Composites: A Trade Opportunity in a Green Future.

Elisabetta Morici, Sabrina Carola Carroccio, Elena Bruno, Paola Scarfato, Giovanni Filippone, Nadka Tz Dintcheva

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Review in Polymers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. How does plastic compare with alternative materials in the packaging sector? A systematic review of LCA studies.Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Elisabetta MoriciAdvanced Technologies Network (ATeN) Center, Università di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze Ed. 18, 90128 Palermo, Italy.
Sabrina Carola CarroccioConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Institute of Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials (IPCB), Via P. Gaifami 18, 95126 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9645-0369
Elena BrunoConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Microelettronica e Microsistemi (IMM), Via Santa Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1935-586X
Paola ScarfatoDepartment of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 84084 Fisciano, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2890-4477
Giovanni FilipponeDipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, 80125 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4382-3686
Nadka Tz DintchevaDipartimento di Ingegneria, Università di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze Ed. 6, 90128 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3557-340X

Funding

MIUR-Italy (Ministry of Education, University and Research of Italy) CLEAN-PRIN-20174FSRZS_002
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Today's world is at the point where almost everyone realizes the usefulness of going green. Due to so-called global warming, there is an urgent need to find solutions to help the Earth and move towards a green future. Many worldwide events are focusing on the global technologies in plastics, bioplastic production, the recycling industry, and waste management where the goal is to turn plastic waste into a trade opportunity among the industrialists and manufacturers. The present work aims to review the recycling process via analyzing the recycling of thermoplastic, thermoset polymers, biopolymers, and their complex composite systems, such as fiber-reinforced polymers and nanocomposites. Moreover, it will be highlighted how the frame of the waste management, increasing the materials specificity, cleanliness, and a low level of collected material contamination will increase the potential recycling of plastics and bioplastics-based materials. At the same time, to have a real and approachable trade opportunity in recycling, it needs to implement an integrated single market for secondary raw materials.

Indexed as

compositesgreen economyrecyclingthermoplasticthermosetwaste management

Identifiers

PMID35631920
PMCPMC9148040

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