A versatile plastic used to make a wide variety of consumer products, expandable polystyrene (EPS) and polystyrene (PS) are integral in industries such as food packaging, appliances, construction, and some niche automotive applications for polystyrene, and for expandable polystyrene construction, white...
Polystyrene nanoplastics (PS-NPs) particles used in the present work with diameters (50.1 nm ± 13.4 SD) was purchased from Toxemerge Pty Ltd. (Melbourne, Australia). The mean diameter and size distribution that form polystyrene particles were determined by using Transmission Electron Microscopy...
As an evolutionarily conserved survival mechanism, autophagy denotes a primary intracellular catabolic process that is pivotal in removing and recycling misfolded proteins and damaged organelles via autophagosomes (Chang et al., 2021). In addition, autophagy also acts as a defense mechanism against ...
A versatile plastic used to make a wide variety of consumer products, expandable polystyrene (EPS) and polystyrene (PS) are integral in industries such as food packaging, appliances, construction, and some niche automotive applications for polystyrene, and for expandable polystyrene construction, white...
Prior to recycling, the waste materials must be washed properly to remove any stuck food or dust particles, the metallic caps and glass jars must be separated from the raw materials, and oversized commodities must be crushed so as to fit them into the bin and transporting truck easily. The ...
The inefficient reuse and recycling of plastics—and the current surge of medical and take-out food packaging use during the pandemic—have exacerbated the environmental burden. This impels the development of alternative recycling/upcycling methods to pivot toward circularity. We report the use of the...
Hyperspectral imaging for process and quality control in recycling plants of polyolefin flakes. J. Near Infrared Spectrosc. 2012, 20, 573–581. [CrossRef] 13. Serranti, S.; Fraunholcz, N.; Di Maio, F.; Bonifazi, G. Recycling-oriented characterization of polyolefin packaging waste. Waste ...
Abstract: The pyrolysis process is a thermochemical recycling process that in recent years has gained importance due to its application in plastic waste, which is one of the biggest environmental problems today. Thus, it is essential to carry out kinetic and thermodynamic analyses to understand the...
Natural aggregate was fully replaced with recycled clay bricks (RB), obtained as an industrial waste product, and with a combination of RB and ground expanded polystyrene (GEP), obtained by mechanical recycling of expanded polystyrene (EP). In total, thirteen SCC mixtures were designed and tested...