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Plastics: Classification, Characterization, and Economic Data

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Polymers - Opportunities and Risks I

Part of the book series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry ((HEC,volume 11))

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This chapter defines “Environmentally Friendly Polymer Engineering” as the basic organizational system of the first volume of these two books. The classification of plastics, and a list of their main characteristics, follows. This chapter closes with some economic data.

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Eyerer, P. (2010). Plastics: Classification, Characterization, and Economic Data. In: Eyerer, P. (eds) Polymers - Opportunities and Risks I. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry(), vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88417-0_1

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