TY - JOUR
T1 - Sustainable cycles and management of plastics
T2 - A brief review of RCR publications in 2019 and early 2020
AU - Chen, Wei Qiang
AU - Ciacci, Luca
AU - Sun, Ning Ning
AU - Yoshioka, Toshiaki
N1 - Funding Information:
This study is sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 41671523 ). We wish to thank Ming Xu (Editor-in-Chief), Roland Geyer, Henning Wilts, the authors, and the reviewers for their outstanding work and support in achieving the proposed goal of this VSI.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2020/8
Y1 - 2020/8
N2 - Plastics have been playing a vital role in the industrialized economy, resulting in the growing amount of plastic waste and the surging attentions to plastics sustainability challenge. This is well reflected in the growing amount of submissions to and publications in Resources, Conservation, and Recycling on plastics, which made the editorial board decide to edit a Virtual Special Issue (VSI) on the “sustainable cycles and management of plastics” in 2018. The call for the VSI has attracted many submissions and twelve were accepted for publication. Together with several other relevant studies, we collected and summarized a total of 26 papers published in RCR mainly during 2019–2020 in this editorial. These papers mostly apply system approach and cover very wide topics such as material flows analysis and circular economy, life cycle assessment and eco-design, regional and global plastic emissions, and human consumption behavior. The whole collection of them offer a comprehensive view of the plastic waste challenges, as well as insights into achieving sustainability in plastic cycles and management. We believe these papers are helpful for government, industries, and individuals in exploring policy implications for building a more sustainable plastics system.
AB - Plastics have been playing a vital role in the industrialized economy, resulting in the growing amount of plastic waste and the surging attentions to plastics sustainability challenge. This is well reflected in the growing amount of submissions to and publications in Resources, Conservation, and Recycling on plastics, which made the editorial board decide to edit a Virtual Special Issue (VSI) on the “sustainable cycles and management of plastics” in 2018. The call for the VSI has attracted many submissions and twelve were accepted for publication. Together with several other relevant studies, we collected and summarized a total of 26 papers published in RCR mainly during 2019–2020 in this editorial. These papers mostly apply system approach and cover very wide topics such as material flows analysis and circular economy, life cycle assessment and eco-design, regional and global plastic emissions, and human consumption behavior. The whole collection of them offer a comprehensive view of the plastic waste challenges, as well as insights into achieving sustainability in plastic cycles and management. We believe these papers are helpful for government, industries, and individuals in exploring policy implications for building a more sustainable plastics system.
KW - Circular economy
KW - Life cycle assessment
KW - Material flow analysis
KW - Plastics
KW - Recycling
KW - Waste management
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U2 - 10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.104822
DO - 10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.104822
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85082851669
SN - 0921-3449
VL - 159
JO - Resources, Conservation and Recycling
JF - Resources, Conservation and Recycling
M1 - 104822
ER -
