Plastics in the global environment assessed through material flow analysis,degradation and environmental transportation

Knowledge on environmental plastic emission and spatial and temporal accumulation is vital for the development of successful mitigation strategies and risk assessments of plastics. In this study, emissions of both micro and macro plastic from the plastic value chain to the environment were assessed on a global level through a mass flow analysis ...

Deconstructing the Plastic Soup. Methods to Identify and Quantify Marine Plastic Pollution Sources

Pollution of plastics to the environment is uninhibitedly increasing, from densely populated city centers to remote oceans (Lebreton et al. 2018; van Emmerik et al. 2019b). Causes for this increase are a combination of a growing world population, rising plastic consumptions, and poor waste management (Lebreton and Andrady 2019; Borrelle et al....

Greenhouse gas benefits from direct chemical recycling of mixed plastic waste

Dealing with heterogeneous plastic waste – i.e., high polymer heterogeneity, additives, and contaminants – and lowering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from plastic production requires integrated solutions. Here, we quantified current and future GHG footprints of direct chemical conversion of heterogeneous post-consumer plastic waste feedstock to...

Plastic recycling in a circular economy; determining environmental performance through an LCA matrix model approach

To ensure a circular economy for plastics, insights in the environmental impacts of recycling and optimal recycling choices for specific plastic polymers are crucial. This was obtained by determining the environmental performance of 10 selected recycling technologies with varying TRL levels, using the chemical properties of the top 25 produced...

LCA Achtergrondrapport voor branche representatieve Nederlandse asfaltmengsels 2020

In 2018 is het rapport ‘LCA Achtergrondrapport voor Nederlandse asfaltmengsels’ opgesteld door TNO in opdracht van de Vakgroep Bitumineuze Werken (VBW) van Bouwend Nederland en Rijkswaterstaat (de Vos et al., 2018). Dit rapport is een update van het rapport uit 2018 en beschrijft de milieuprofielen van 19 brancherepresentatieve asfaltmengsels....

Sources, transport, and accumulation of different types of plastic litter in aquatic environments: A review study

Types of plastic waste in different aquatic environments were assessed to obtain a global framework of plastic waste transport and accumulation, relevant for plastic pollution mitigation strategies in aquatic environments. Packaging and consumer products were the most encountered product categories in rivers, while fishery items dominated in the...