Plastic degradation/recycling
- Submission status
- Open
- Submission deadline
Plastic degradation refers to the process of breaking down plastic materials into simpler or smaller components to reduce their environmental impact. Methods to decompose plastic material include mechanical breakdown, chemical recycling, and biodegradation. Mechanical degradation and chemical recycling aim to produce smaller particles and simpler chemical structures that can be reused to produce new material. Alternatively, biodegradation of plastics by enzymes produced by microorganisms ideally results in the metabolization of the materials; research efforts to advance this field aim to increase the effectiveness of these enzymes.
This Collection aims to attract original research that develops or employs methods to break down and recycle plastic materials by mechanical, chemical, or biological means.
Editors
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C. Marisa R. Almeida
University of Porto, Portugal
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Bipro Dhar
University of Alberta, Canada
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Jay N. Meegoda
New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Collections articles undergo Scientific Reports' standard peer review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. This includes the journal’s policy on competing interests. The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests. For more information, refer to our Collections guidelines.
This Collection has not been supported by sponsorship.
