Recycling Approach of Marine Plastic Litter: Highly Filled Composites Obtained by Loading Waste Fishing Nets Fiber into Fluidified Recycled Polystyrene and Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene

Immacolata Liotta; Roberto Avolio; Rachele Castaldo; Gennaro Gentile; Maria Emanuela Errico; Mariacristina Cocca

doi:10.1109/metrosea58055.2023.10317495

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Recycling Approach of Marine Plastic Litter: Highly Filled Composites Obtained by Loading Waste Fishing Nets Fiber into Fluidified Recycled Polystyrene and Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene

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Immacolata Liotta, Roberto Avolio, Rachele Castaldo, Gennaro Gentile, Maria Emanuela Errico, Mariacristina Cocca

Summary

This study explores recycling waste fishing nets by embedding their fibers into recycled polystyrene and ABS plastics to create highly filled composite materials. The approach offers a pathway to reduce marine plastic litter from abandoned fishing gear while producing useful recycled material.

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Plastic and microplastic pollution in the marine environment is a global issue and lost or discarded fishing nets represent a part of the marine litter. The lost or abandoned fishing gear, like fishing nets, is very harmful to marine organisms due to microplastics release and ghost fishing. Finding recovery and recycling strategies (mechanical, chemical or thermal) for marine plastic waste is a challenge and an opportunity to contribute to the reduction of plastic waste within the framework of a circular economy.

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