Significance of Plastic Recycling with the Focus on Polyesters - Creating a Circular Economy

F Pelin Uran; Hale Bila; Shaista Shah; Mohamed Hlaiem; Bardiya Valizadeh; Samantha Anderson; Christopher P Ireland

doi:10.2533/chimia.2023.836

Significance of Plastic Recycling with the Focus on Polyesters - Creating a Circular Economy

Chimia (Aarau). 2023 Dec 20;77(12):836-841. doi: 10.2533/chimia.2023.836.

Authors

F Pelin Uran¹, Hale Bila², Shaista Shah³, Mohamed Hlaiem⁴, Bardiya Valizadeh⁵, Samantha Anderson⁶, Christopher P Ireland⁷

Affiliations

¹ DePoly SA, Rue de l'Industrie 23, CH-1950 Sion, Switzerland. p.uran@depoly.co.
² DePoly SA, Rue de l'Industrie 23, CH-1950 Sion, Switzerland. h.bila@depoly.co.
³ DePoly SA, Rue de l'Industrie 23, CH-1950 Sion, Switzerland. s.shah@depoly.co.
⁴ DePoly SA, Rue de l'Industrie 23, CH-1950 Sion, Switzerland. m.hlaiem@depoly.co.
⁵ DePoly SA, Rue de l'Industrie 23, CH-1950 Sion, Switzerland. b.valizadeh@depoly.co.
⁶ DePoly SA, Rue de l'Industrie 23, CH-1950 Sion, Switzerland. s.anderson@depoly.co.
⁷ DePoly SA, Rue de l'Industrie 23, CH-1950 Sion, Switzerland. c.ireland@depoly.co.

PMID: 38131407
DOI: 10.2533/chimia.2023.836

Abstract

Plastics materials are essential in every part of our lives, resulting in their increasing production and consumption. Consequently, recycling of plastics has been of great importance in the last decades. Among all types of plastics, polyesters have become very appealing for numerous kinds of applications, making their recycling crucial. Several techniques have been developed for the recycling of plastics with the aim of eliminating the waste accumulated, as well as to create a circular economy.

Keywords: Chemical recycling; Circular economy; Plastic recycling; Polyester.

Copyright 2023 F. Pelin Uran, Hale Bila, Shaista Shah, Mohamed Hlaiem, Bardiya Valizadeh, Samantha Anderson, Christopher Ireland. License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.