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Submit a ProposalPlastics and Sustainability
 | Towards a Peaceful Coexistence between Bio-based and Fossil Fuel-based Plastics By Michael Tolinski Copyright: 2012 | Status: Published ISBN: 9780470938782 | Hardcover | 294 pages Price: $98.95 USD  |
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Compares traditional fossil fuel-based plastics with bio-based plastics in terms of properties, environmental impacts, and costs.
The primary audience for Plastics and Sustainability comprises technical / engineering managers in plastics-producing or -consuming industries, materials engineers, design engineers, chemical engineers, environmental and school of natural resources researchers, government regulatory agency personnel, recycling facility managers, pre-doctoral graduate students, industry trade group executives, and plastics industry consultants and economists.
The secondary audience comprises plastics & chemical industry marketing communications firms, directors of sustainability at various organizations, purchasing managers, food & beverage manufacturing managers, waste-management managers, agriculture market economists & forecasters, and environmental organization executives.
Company managers, product developers, policy makers, environmental researchers, and plastics industry engineers are under increasing pressure to find ways of minimizing the environmental footprint of plastic products. Various calls for reducing plastic litter, improving recycling, banning certain plastic products, and using more bio-based or biodegradable plastics have made practical decisions about sustainability complicated. This accessible book is designed to help readers understand the life-cycle impacts of various plastics, clarifying the technical research and practical arguments to show when bio-based and recycled plastics might be useful options for reducing the overall energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and waste associated with traditional plastics.
The book compares traditional fossil fuel-based plastics with bio-based plastics in terms of properties, environmental impacts, and costs -- indicating what the most effective approaches could be for using recycled, biodegradable, or various bio-based materials. The book makes objective comparisons between bioplastics and all commonly used plastics, focusing on how they affect production economics, product requirements, and retailer and consumer needs. It incorporates research concerning life-cycle assessment, production techniques, and commercial applications, and presents greenĀ guidelines for product design, recycling, processing efficiency, and material selection. The book also reports on recent industry developments and commercial trends in an effort to synthesize conclusions that are necessary for finding the right balance between bio-based and fossil-fuel based plastic products.
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Michael Tolinski has been researching and writing about plastics sustainability issues for industry readers regularly since 1998 (and since 2004 as a contributing editor for Plastics Engineering magazine published by the Society of Plastics Engineers. His materials science and engineering degree and previous career as a manufacturing/materials engineer gave him a solid background in plastics and in the practical problems faced by manufacturers. Later, his experience teaching at the University of Michigan(Ann Arbor) College of Engineering and at Oakland University tapped his expertise in explaining technical arguments for a diverse but demanding audience. His first book, Additives for Polyolefins (2009), was published by Elsevier/William Andrew Plastic Design Library.
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BISAC SUBJECT HEADINGS
TEC047000: Technology & Engineering/Polymers
SCI013080:
TEC021000: Technology & Engineering/Material Science
BIC CODES
TDCP: Plastics & Polymer Technology
RNU: Sustainability
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