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Yi-Ming Zhang, Peter Brimblecombe and Chon-Lin Lee
Microplastics are a major environmental issue. In marine systems, these break down into small fragments that may lodge within organisms, but they behave as vectors for chemicals when pollutants such as metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), pes...
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Ana-Maria Urian, Nicoleta-Maria Ilies, Ovidiu Nemes and Andor-Csongor Nagy
Population expansion and the development of technology have led to an increase in construction activities. In many cases, foundation grounds do not have a high enough bearing capacity and are not capable of ensuring the safe exploitation of the construct...
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Masood Ur Rahman and Jing Li
This paper presents experimental investigations on epoxy mortar produced using industrial wastes. In some recent studies, coal bottom ash and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) waste have been chosen as a filler to replace sand, and fly ash and silica fume...
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Cristina Pavon, Miguel Aldas, David Bertomeu, Harrison de la Rosa-Ramírez, María Dolores Samper and Juan López-Martínez
Poly(butylene succinate) (PBS) is one of the contaminants in the Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) recycling process. It is known that high contents of PBS in PET significantly reduce PET properties, but the effect of low contents on PET has yet to be s...
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Xiong Xu, Yaming Chu, Yi Luo, Qiaoyun Wu, Xuyong Chen and Suxun Shu
Waste poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) drinking bottles and end-of-life scrap rubber tires are common municipal solid wastes discarded and produced every day, which are usually disposed of in landfills and stockpiles, occupying a great quantity of land...
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Seon-Chil Kim
The use of disposable containers and packaging materials has increased due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, the generation of plastic waste is also increasing, and research on recycling such waste is being actively conducted. In this study, an X-ra...
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Franky E. P. Lapian, M. Isran Ramli, Mubassirang Pasra and Ardy Arsyad
We often use the plastics daily, containing of polyethylene plastic polymers which recently can be utilized as additional material for road pavements. Several studies have attempted to find the optimum proportion of an asphalt mixture using modified Asbu...
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Ville Lahtela, Anil Kumar and Timo Kärki
An increased amount of textile waste will be available in the future, and its utilization requires attention from various perspectives. The re-utilization of textile waste in a second material cycle is an option for dealing with a global problem that put...
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Francesca Lionetto and Carola Esposito Corcione
Marine pollution is one of the biggest environmental problems, mainly due to single-use or disposable plastic waste fragmenting into microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) and entering oceans from the coasts together with human-made MPs. A rapidly gr...
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Suthep Jualaong, Mitila Pransilpa, Siriporn Pradit and Prawit Towatana
In the oceans and coasts, plastic waste poses a global threat to biodiversity. This study examined the types and distribution of microplastics in beach sediment along the coast of the eastern Gulf of Thailand in March 2018 (northeast monsoon = dry season...
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