Facing plastics: Quantification and characterization of plastic packaging in mixed household waste streams as a guide to increased circularity KU Leuven
Plastic packaging is a gateway for material losses. Packaging represents about 40% of the European virgin plastics demand, but less than half of it is recycled. On top of that, badly managed and littered plastic packaging contribute to environmental pollution. Since any solution starts with defining the problem, the presented work aims to quantify and characterize plastic packaging that is not collected separately for recycling, but is ...