2. Production, use, and fate of synthetic polymers
Roland Geyer

3. The geography and geology of plastics: their environmental
distribution and fate
Sarah Gabbott, Sarah Key, Catherine Russell, Yasmin Yohan and
Jan Zalasiewicz

4. Biobased plastics
Stephan Kabasci

5. Biodegradable plastics
Maja Rujnic Havstad

6. Current industry position on plastic production and recycling
Edward Kosior and Jonathan Mitchell

7. Plastic waste in the terrestrial environment
Rachel Hurley, Alice Horton, Amy Lusher and Luca Nizzetto

8. The environmental impacts of plastic pollution
Natalie A. Welden

9. Microplastics: from origin to impacts
Natalie A. Welden and Amy Lusher

10. Textiles production and end-of-life management options
Andreas Bartl

11. Mechanical recycling of packaging waste
Alexander Feil and Thomas Pretz

12. Blast furnace feedstock and coke oven chemical feedstock
Seiji Nomura

13. Chemical routes for recyclingddissolving, catalytic, and
thermochemical technologies
Maija Pohjakallio and Tommi Vuorinen

14. Conversion of plastic waste to fuel
Mohanraj Chandran, Senthilkumar Tamilkolundu and
Chandrasekar Murugesan

15. The treatment of plastic in automobile shredder residue
Alfons Buekens and Trevor M. Letcher

16. Solutions to the plastic waste problem on land and in the
oceans
Edward Kosior and Irene Crescenzi

17. Plastics we cannot live without
Sharon George

18. Secondary plastic productsdexamples and market trends
Maija Pohjakallio

19. Plastic waste in a circular economy
John N. Hahladakis, Eleni Iacovidou and Spyridoula Gerassimidou

20. Ecological and health issues of plastic waste
Cayla R. Cook and Rolf U. Halden

21. Policy responses to plastic pollution in Asia: summary of a
regional gap analysis
Lewis Akenji, Magnus Bengtsson, Yasuhiko Hotta, Mizuki Kato and
Matthew Hengesbaugh

22. The challenge of plastic pollution in Nigeria
Emeka Dumbili and Lesley Henderson

23. Plastic waste in the United Kingdom
Libby Peake

[...]opean Union's plastic strategy and an impact assessment
of the proposed directive on tackling single-use plastics items
Tim Elliott, Hannah Gillie and Alice Thomson