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A Review on Plastic Waste Management Using Life Cycle Assessment Approach

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Recent Advances in Sustainable Waste Management Practices (SWMP 2023)

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Life cycle assessment is a method for estimating the environmental impact of any product for its span of life. Plastic waste management is the only solution to prevent plastic pollution and all the problems associated with it. Plastics can be divided into two types: thermoset plastics and thermoplastics. Most of the World’s total plastic consumption comprises thermoplastics. There are four methods available for plastic waste management in which Chemical and thermal recycling method is advantageous since it can process heterogeneous mix of plastic waste. This work is aimed to review all the types of thermoplastic waste management options, evaluating various environmental parameters through life cycle assessment and list the limitations and gaps of conducted research on the same.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Lingaya’s Vidyapeeth, Faridabad, 121002, India

    Divyashree Yadav

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The NorthCap University, Gurugram, 122017, India

    Vaishali Sahu

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The NorthCap University, Gurugram, 122017, India

    Akanksha Mathur

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, SVNIT, Surat, Gujarat, India

    Kunwar D. Yadav

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of, Surat, Gujarat, India

    Namrata D. Jariwala

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, NIT, Jaipur, India

    Amit Kumar

  4. Department of Environmental Science Engineering, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India

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Yadav, D., Sahu, V., Mathur, A. (2024). A Review on Plastic Waste Management Using Life Cycle Assessment Approach. In: Yadav, K.D., Jariwala, N.D., Kumar, A., Sinha, A. (eds) Recent Advances in Sustainable Waste Management Practices. SWMP 2023. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 430. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4186-5_17

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