Improving markets for recycled plastics trends, prospects and policy responses
Plastics have become one of the most prolific materials on the planet: in 2015 we produced about 380 million tonnes of plastics globally, up from 2 million tonnes in the 1950s. Yet today only 15% of this plastic waste is collected and recycled into secondary plastics globally each year. This report...
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Paris :
OECD
[2018]
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009705218706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- Currency conversions
- Executive summary
- Introduction
- Plastics production
- Recycling plastics
- The recycled plastics industry
- Markets and trade in waste plastics
- Barriers and interventions
- Annexes
- Overview of plastics production processes
- Additives
- Bioplastics
- Degradation definitions
- Lifecycle analysis
- Scottish Carbon Metric Detail
- International Waste Hierarchy according to the IPCC
- Recycling targets
- Plastic waste disposal, recovery and recycling in Europe
- Summary of polymer specific data from OECD questionnaire responses
- Plastic sorters in the UK
- Summary of key data sources for recycled plastics
- Exports of waste plastics
- Imports of waste plastics
- Time series analysis of prices paid for recycled plastics in China
- Overview of policies details provided by OECD questionnaire respondents
- Detailed assessment of interventions
- Examples of innovation in plastics
- References.
