<p>1. Introduction to plastic waste and recycling <br>Trevor M. Letcher</p> <p>2. Production, use, and fate of synthetic polymers<br>Roland Geyer</p> <p>3. The geography and geology of plastics: their environmental<br>distribution and fate<br>Sarah Gabbott, Sarah Key, Catherine Russell, Yasmin Yohan and<br>Jan Zalasiewicz</p> <p>4. Biobased plastics<br>Stephan Kabasci</p> <p>5. Biodegradable plastics<br>Maja Rujnic Havstad</p> <p>6. Current industry position on plastic production and recycling<br>Edward Kosior and Jonathan Mitchell</p> <p>7. Plastic waste in the terrestrial environment<br>Rachel Hurley, Alice Horton, Amy Lusher and Luca Nizzetto</p> <p>8. The environmental impacts of plastic pollution<br>Natalie A. Welden</p> <p>9. Microplastics: from origin to impacts<br>Natalie A. Welden and Amy Lusher</p> <p>10. Textiles production and end-of-life management options<br>Andreas Bartl</p> <p>11. Mechanical recycling of packaging waste<br>Alexander Feil and Thomas Pretz</p> <p>12. Blast furnace feedstock and coke oven chemical feedstock<br>Seiji Nomura</p> <p>13. Chemical routes for recyclingddissolving, catalytic, and<br>thermochemical technologies<br>Maija Pohjakallio and Tommi Vuorinen</p> <p>14. Conversion of plastic waste to fuel<br>Mohanraj Chandran, Senthilkumar Tamilkolundu and<br>Chandrasekar Murugesan</p> <p>15. The treatment of plastic in automobile shredder residue<br>Alfons Buekens and Trevor M. Letcher</p> <p>16. Solutions to the plastic waste problem on land and in the<br>oceans<br>Edward Kosior and Irene Crescenzi</p> <p>17. Plastics we cannot live without<br>Sharon George</p> <p>18. Secondary plastic productsdexamples and market trends<br>Maija Pohjakallio</p> <p>19. Plastic waste in a circular economy<br>John N. Hahladakis, Eleni Iacovidou and Spyridoula Gerassimidou</p> <p>20. Ecological and health issues of plastic waste<br>Cayla R. Cook and Rolf U. Halden</p> <p>21. Policy responses to plastic pollution in Asia: summary of a<br>regional gap analysis<br>Lewis Akenji, Magnus Bengtsson, Yasuhiko Hotta, Mizuki Kato and<br>Matthew Hengesbaugh</p> <p>22. The challenge of plastic pollution in Nigeria<br>Emeka Dumbili and Lesley Henderson</p> <p>23. Plastic waste in the United Kingdom<br>Libby Peake</p> <p>24. European Union’s plastic strategy and an impact assessment<br>of the proposed directive on tackling single-use plastics items<br>Tim Elliott, Hannah Gillie and Alice Thomson</p>
