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The chemistry of chemical recycling of solid plastic waste via pyrolysis and gasification: State-of-the-art, challenges, and future directions

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In this article, an improved deterministic kinetic model for the dominating reaction families of solid plastic waste (SPW) was proposed to identify the leading recycling technologies, minimizing the global warming potential in an industrial context.
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This article is published in Progress in Energy and Combustion Science.The article was published on 2021-05-01. It has received 214 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Process design.

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Impacts of Plastic Pollution on Ecosystem Services, Sustainable Development Goals, and Need to Focus on Circular Economy and Policy Interventions

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarized the current understanding and concerns of plastics pollution (microplastics or nanoplastics) on natural ecosystems and provided a background assessment on the adverse effects of plastic pollution on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems; interlink the management of plastics with sustainable development goals; address the policy initiatives under transdisciplinary approaches through life cycle assessment, circular economy, and sustainability; identify the knowledge gaps; and provide current policy recommendations.
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From plastic waste to wealth using chemical recycling: A Review

TL;DR: In this article, the challenges and future trends in chemical recycling of plastic waste are proposed, which will offer guidance for the development of industrial-relevant catalysts and recycling systems, as well as the environmental performance and influence of chemical recycling.
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From plastic waste to wealth using chemical recycling: A review

TL;DR: In this article , the challenges and future trends in chemical recycling of plastic waste are proposed, which will offer guidance for the development of industrial-relevant catalysts and recycling systems, as well as the environmental performance and influence of chemical recycling.
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Exact Stochastic Simulation of Coupled Chemical Reactions

TL;DR: In this article, a simulation algorithm for the stochastic formulation of chemical kinetics is proposed, which uses a rigorously derived Monte Carlo procedure to numerically simulate the time evolution of a given chemical system.
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Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

TL;DR: By identifying and synthesizing dispersed data on production, use, and end-of-life management of polymer resins, synthetic fibers, and additives, this work presents the first global analysis of all mass-produced plastics ever manufactured.
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Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

TL;DR: This work combines available data on solid waste with a model that uses population density and economic status to estimate the amount of land-based plastic waste entering the ocean, which is estimated to be 275 million metric tons.
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A General Method for Numerically Simulating the Stochastic Time Evolution of Coupled Chemical Reactions

TL;DR: In this paper, an exact method is presented for numerically calculating, within the framework of the stochastic formulation of chemical kinetics, the time evolution of any spatially homogeneous mixture of molecular species which interreact through a specified set of coupled chemical reaction channels.
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