Title:	Polymers, The Environment and Sustainable Development
Authors:	Adisa Azapagic, Alan Emsley Ian Hamerton
Keywords:	Environment
Issue Date:	2003
Publisher:	Wiley
Description:	In this book, we adopt such an approach in an attempt to examine the options and contribute towards the practice of sustainable development by addressing two important areas: resource use and waste management. We concentrate on polymeric materials and products, ubiquitous in our everyday life, to try and understand what drives and limits their production, use, re-use and recycling. We will consider a wide range of polymers, but will mainly concentrate on plastic* materials, i.e. thermoplastics and thermosets, because they constitute the majority of the market. The conceptual approach adopted in the book is illustrated in Figure 1.3, which shows a ‘life guide’ for polymers with a number of different lives (or cascades of uses) and the associated life cycle stages. The guide through the chapters is also shown in the figure. We particularly concentrate on post-consumer waste management and examine the influencing technical, legislative, environmental, economic and social factors with the aim of identifying more sustainable options for polymer re-use and recycling.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/26717
ISBN:	0-471-87740-9
Appears in Collections:	Environmental and Development Studies

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