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Depolymerization Recycling

Plastics Circularity
Series: De Gruyter STEM
Brief Description
Plastics, structural polymers made from monomers, are ubiquitous in modern life and have unique benefits. At their end of life, they must be reused or recycled in ways not yet implemented today. In many cases, the polymerisation process can be efficiently reversed via depolymerisation recycling to... Read More
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Plastics, structural polymers made from monomers, are ubiquitous in modern life and have unique benefits. At their end of life, they must be reused or recycled in ways not yet implemented today. In many cases, the polymerisation process can be efficiently reversed via depolymerisation recycling to regain monomers at the original quality level.

As such, depolymerisation is a key circularity enabler for some classes of polymers, especially when crosslinked or used in composites. Depolymerization Recycling introduces the energy, CO2 emission and waste stream dimensions for recycling. It reviews the respective polymer science and introduces the processing technologies for industrial scaling. All these concepts are explored in practical examples across polymer classes and different plastics applications.

The economics of depolymerisation recycling are introduced, together with life cycle analysis and design for recycling. With this compact overview, a reader will understand depolymerisation recycling in the necessary context of scale, sustainability and value chain thinking, towards a sustainable value chain transformation.

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    Plastics, structural polymers made from monomers, are ubiquitous in modern life and have unique benefits. At their end of life, they must be reused or recycled in ways not yet implemented today. In many cases, the polymerisation process can be efficiently reversed via depolymerisation recycling to regain monomers at the original quality level. As such, depolymerisation is a key circularity...
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783111660356

Publisher: De Gruyter

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 April 2026

Country: Germany

Imprint: De Gruyter

Illustration: 4 Tables, color; 13 Tables, black and white; 65 Illustrations, black and white; 94 Illustrations, color

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 294g

Pages: 160

About the Author

Hannah Mangold studied chemistry at Freiburg University, Germany, and completed her PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz on the topic of organic photovoltaics. She joined BASF R&D in 2014 and has been working in diverse fields such as photophysics of luminescent materials, as well as product development for display materials. She is now a team leader in Process Research and Chemical Engineering, where her focus is on polymer recycling projects in the field of depolymerization and solvent-based recycling. In this field she has contributed to several projects regarding the recycling of polycondensation polymers from small lab scale to pilot scale.

Bernhard von Vacano studied chemistry and physics as an elective subject, in TΓΌbingen (Germany), at the University of Wales in Bangor (UK), the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching (Germany) and received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Marburg University (Germany). Having joined BASF in 2008 in the companyΒ΄ s polymer physics department, he has since held various positions in R&D is now a senior research fellow in the area of plastics circularity.

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