• ISBN13: 9783031788284
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Springer
• Publisher Imprint: Springer
• Publication Date: October 2, 2025
• Pages: 647
• Original Price: USD 199.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1275 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Environmental / Waste Management

This unique book provides comprehensive and holistic information on the circular economy of plastics - products and their design for circularity, markets and producer responsibility, recovery of wastes and resource responsibility, and plastics manufacturing with circular feedstocks. The central part of the book is on circularity and circular feedstocks, embedded in a framework of chapters on the relevant properties of plastic as a material, its ecosystems and mass streams across Europe on the one hand and of chapters on Life Cycle Analysis and Product Carbon Footprint, on digitalisation, logistics, and standardization on the other hand. Comprehensive information is provided on relevant EU-regulation and on national regulation in Europe, too. A knowledge body contains information on relevant associations and networks, on recent studies on the topics mentioned, and an extensive glossary. Thus the book is a compendium of information on the dynamically evolving realm of the circular economy providing insight and clarity into complex and puzzling structures and positions. The book addresses professionals in a wide range of industries together with scholars and students in science and technology as wells as policy makers, authorities, and the media.

Dr. Peter Orth is a chemist by education; with OPC - Orth Plastics Consulting he leads a group of senior consultants with decades of professional experience in leading positions in the German and European plastics industry and their associations; the focus of his activities is on innovation and sustainability in cooperation with science, industry and politics. He is currently working in the fields of the circular economy of plastics and circular feedstock for plastics. Dr. Juergen Bruder is a chemist by education; he is acting as senior consultant for the plastics industry focussing on the transformation of the industry towards a circular economy mainly addressing plastics packing and plastics applications for sustainable farming. Dr. Ulrich Liman is a chemist by education and has decades of experience in R&D in the chemical and polymer industry for polyurethane and polycarbonate applications with living experience in Germany, the US, Japan and China. Manfred Rink is a mechanical engineer by education; he is acting as senior consultant for the plastics industry focussing on future trends in the industry and resulting chances and risks; he actually is investigating the impact of a circular economy on the industry.