Advances in the Circularity of Polymeric and Composite Materials
Résumé
Polymeric and composite materials are ubiquitous today. However, to improve their sustainability, it is of paramount importance to make sure that their waste does not end up in landfill or in the environment, and to find ways to recover and reuse these materials in useful and profitable applications. To contribute to building a resource-efficient future, it has become essential to put them in the loop of a more circular economy.
Eco-design, including design for recycling, has become the watchword, with several recycling techniques available and competing to achieve this ambitious goal. There is also an increasing number of attempts to reuse constitutive products recovered that way by reincorporating them into new materials or high value-added applications. Which methods achieve which objectives, however, and which make sense for various feedstocks?
This Special Issue welcomes papers on the latest advances and development of recycling, recovery, and reuse of polymeric and composite materials. Suggested contributions may address materials, processing, sorting, design, performance, or application issues, with either experimental or numerical approaches.
Mots clés
Pyrolysis
Gasification
Advanced sorting
Waste materials
Polymers
Plastics
Composites
Fiber-reinforced plastics
Composite materials
Thermoplastics
Thermosets
Glass fibers
Carbon fibers
Plant-based fibers
Energy recovery
Alternative fuels
Circular economy
Recycling
Recovery
Recycling-by-design
Design for recycling
Upcyling
Mechanical recycling
Chemical recycling
Thermal recycling
Solvolysis
Depolymerization
Thermolysis