Recycling of Polylactide. Badia, J. D., Gil-Castell, Ó., Teruel-Juanes, R., & Ribes-Greus, A. In Reference Module in Materials Science and Materials Engineering. Elsevier, January, 2019.
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The future establishment of bioplastics in the industry-to-commerce streams will undoubtedly lead to the generation of a huge amount of plastic waste to be valorized. Even though the main route might be biological valorization, it is advisable to explore the possibilities of material valorization as a mean to optimize and extend the lifetime of the polymers throughout different goods and uses before final discarding towards biological management. Polylactide (PLA) is perhaps the biopolymer that is more developed at present and represents a feasible alternative to petroleum-based polymers in several demanding sectors such as packaging. Therefore, several studies have been devoted to assess the suitability of mechanical recycling to recover PLA, by taking into account the influence of the inherent thermo-mechanical degradation during successive reprocessing. In this article, the most relevant works on the mechanical recycling of PLA, PLA-based blends, and PLA-based nanocomposites are reviewed. The influence of degradation is evaluated in terms of structural and morphological changes, in close connection with the performance of recycled PLA on its processability, thermal and mechanical properties, and mass transfer capabilities.
@incollection{badia_recycling_2019,
	title = {Recycling of {Polylactide}},
	isbn = {978-0-12-803581-8},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128035818105697},
	abstract = {The future establishment of bioplastics in the industry-to-commerce streams will undoubtedly lead to the generation of a huge amount of plastic waste to be valorized. Even though the main route might be biological valorization, it is advisable to explore the possibilities of material valorization as a mean to optimize and extend the lifetime of the polymers throughout different goods and uses before final discarding towards biological management. Polylactide (PLA) is perhaps the biopolymer that is more developed at present and represents a feasible alternative to petroleum-based polymers in several demanding sectors such as packaging. Therefore, several studies have been devoted to assess the suitability of mechanical recycling to recover PLA, by taking into account the influence of the inherent thermo-mechanical degradation during successive reprocessing. In this article, the most relevant works on the mechanical recycling of PLA, PLA-based blends, and PLA-based nanocomposites are reviewed. The influence of degradation is evaluated in terms of structural and morphological changes, in close connection with the performance of recycled PLA on its processability, thermal and mechanical properties, and mass transfer capabilities.},
	language = {en},
	urldate = {2019-03-03},
	booktitle = {Reference {Module} in {Materials} {Science} and {Materials} {Engineering}},
	publisher = {Elsevier},
	author = {Badia, José D. and Gil-Castell, Óscar and Teruel-Juanes, Roberto and Ribes-Greus, Amparo},
	month = jan,
	year = {2019},
	doi = {10.1016/B978-0-12-803581-8.10569-7}
}

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