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Oxo-biodegradable Plastics: Who They Are and to What They Serve—Present Status and Future Perspectives

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Polyolefin Compounds and Materials

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The worldwide annual consumption of polymeric materials and relevant plastic items is nowadays well above 300 million Tons, of which less than 2 million Tons is represented by polymeric materials from renewable resources. These last materials, when converted to relevant plastic manufactured goods, are identified under the ambiguous chimeric “bioplastics” terminology as evidenced in official EU documents [1, 2].

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, Research Unit of the Interuniversity National Consortium of Materials Science and Technology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Emo Chiellini & Andrea Corti

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Chiellini, E., Corti, A. (2016). Oxo-biodegradable Plastics: Who They Are and to What They Serve—Present Status and Future Perspectives. In: Al-Ali AlMa'adeed, M., Krupa, I. (eds) Polyolefin Compounds and Materials. Springer Series on Polymer and Composite Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25982-6_14

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