PMID- 26105077
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160630
LR  - 20150912
IS  - 1879-2456 (Electronic)
IS  - 0956-053X (Linking)
VI  - 44
DP  - 2015 Oct
TI  - Combating oil spill problem using plastic waste.
PG  - 34-8
LID - S0956-053X(15)00415-8 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.wasman.2015.06.003 [doi]
AB  - Thermoplastic polymers (such as polypropylene, polyethylene, polyethylene 
      terephthalate (PET) and high density polyethylene (HDPE)) constitute 5-15% of 
      municipal solid waste produced across the world. A huge quantity of plastic waste 
      is disposed of each year and is mostly either discarded in landfills or 
      incinerated. On the other hand, the usage of synthetic polymers as oil sorbents, 
      in particular, polyolefins, including polypropylene (PP), and polyethylene (PE) 
      are the most commonly used oil sorbent materials mainly due to their low cost. 
      However, they possess relatively low oil absorption capacities. In this work, we 
      provide an innovative way to produce a value-added product such as oil-sorbent 
      film with high practical oil uptake values in terms of g/g from waste HDPE 
      bottles for rapid oil spill remedy.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Saleem, Junaid
AU  - Saleem J
AD  - Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Karachi, Pakistan. Electronic 
      address: junaidupm@gmail.com.
FAU - Ning, Chao
AU  - Ning C
AD  - Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Hong Kong University of 
      Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
FAU - Barford, John
AU  - Barford J
AD  - Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Hong Kong University of 
      Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
FAU - McKay, Gordon
AU  - McKay G
AD  - Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Hong Kong University of 
      Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong; Division of 
      Sustainable Development, College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Hamad 
      Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20150620
PL  - United States
TA  - Waste Manag
JT  - Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
JID - 9884362
RN  - 0 (Plastics)
RN  - 0 (Solid Waste)
RN  - 9002-88-4 (Polyethylene)
SB  - IM
MH  - Environmental Restoration and Remediation/*methods
MH  - Petroleum Pollution/*prevention & control
MH  - Plastics/analysis/*chemistry
MH  - Polyethylene/*chemistry
MH  - Solid Waste/analysis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Oil spill
OT  - Oil uptake
OT  - Plastic waste
OT  - Polymer film
OT  - Sorbent
EDAT- 2015/06/25 06:00
MHDA- 2016/07/01 06:00
CRDT- 2015/06/25 06:00
PHST- 2015/01/01 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2015/04/23 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2015/06/03 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2015/06/25 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/06/25 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/07/01 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0956-053X(15)00415-8 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.wasman.2015.06.003 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Waste Manag. 2015 Oct;44:34-8. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2015.06.003. Epub 2015 Jun 
      20.