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ClearThe Changing Landscape of Sport Facilities
This book examines the environmental impact of modern sport facility development, challenging the 'faster, higher, stronger' logic that drives growing resource consumption in the sports economy. The authors call for reimagining sport facilities with climate responsibility and sustainability at the center. The work is relevant to plastic waste because sporting events and facilities generate significant single-use plastic waste.
Advancements in Environmental Management Strategies and Sustainable Practices for Construction Industry: A Comprehensive Review
This review examines the latest environmental management strategies and sustainable practices being adopted by the construction industry. Researchers discuss innovations in sustainable materials, energy-efficient building methods, waste reduction, and renewable energy integration. The study highlights how stakeholders from construction companies to governments are working together to promote greener building practices.
A critical review of the current progress of plastic waste recycling technology in structural materials
Researchers reviewed technologies for recycling plastic waste into construction materials such as concrete and asphalt, finding this approach can meaningfully reduce the environmental burden of plastic pollution. Incorporating plastic waste into building materials offers a practical path toward both waste reduction and more sustainable construction.
Systematic Review of Plastic Waste as Eco-Friendly Aggregate for Sustainable Construction
This systematic review examines how recycled plastic waste can be used as a substitute for traditional aggregates in concrete and construction materials. Using plastic waste in construction could divert it from landfills and waterways where it breaks down into microplastics. The review evaluates the structural performance and environmental benefits of incorporating plastic into building materials.
Airborne microplastic emissions from synthetic sports surfaces and associated health risks to children
This review examines synthetic sports surfaces like tracks and artificial turf as sources of airborne microplastic emissions in school environments, focusing on health risks to children. The study highlights evidence linking inhaled airborne microplastics to oxidative stress, inflammation, and systemic health effects, noting that children face heightened vulnerability due to their physiology and activity patterns on these surfaces.
Environmental Impact and Carbon Footprint Assessment of Sustainable Buildings: An Experimental Investigation
Researchers assessed the carbon footprint and environmental impact of sustainable building construction in Chennai, India, finding that the infrastructure sector contributes substantially to carbon emissions and that sustainable materials can reduce this footprint.
A Survey on Use of Non-Recyclable Waste in Construction
This survey reviews strategies for incorporating non-recyclable plastic waste into construction materials, documenting the environmental threat posed by plastic waste in marine ecosystems and its effects on wildlife and human health. The authors conclude that using plastic waste as a component in cementitious composites offers the most promising avenue for improving environmental sustainability while providing a practical construction material.
Recent Eco-Friendly Developments in Personal Protective Clothing Materials for Reducing Plastic Pollution: A Review
This review examined recent developments in eco-friendly personal protective clothing materials, evaluating bio-based and biodegradable fiber alternatives to conventional plastic-derived materials as a strategy to reduce plastic pollution from the personal protective equipment sector.
Potential Applications of Different Forms of Recycled Plastics as Construction Materials—A Review
This review examined potential applications of different forms of recycled plastics (granules, powder, fiber, aggregate) as construction materials, identifying suitable recycling methodologies and construction products with performance benefits such as improved toughness and reduced weight.
Toward More-Than-Human Understandings of Sport and the Environment: A New Materialist Analysis of Everyday Fitness Practices
This new materialist analysis of fitness practices explores how sport intersects with environmental harm, highlighting microplastic pollution from synthetic sportswear as an overlooked consequence of everyday fitness consumption.
Recycling/reuse of plastic waste as construction material for sustainable development: a review
Researchers reviewed how waste plastic can be incorporated into construction materials — as binders, aggregates, or cement substitutes in bricks, tiles, concrete, and roads — finding that plastic-modified materials often show competitive strength properties while simultaneously diverting plastic waste from landfills.
Societal impact of recycling waste into composite materials
This review examines how recycling various types of waste, including plastics, into composite materials can reduce environmental pollution and support a circular economy. Researchers surveyed methods for transforming plastic waste, agricultural residues, and industrial byproducts into useful construction and engineering materials. The study highlights that waste-derived composites can offer comparable performance to conventional materials while significantly reducing the environmental footprint of waste disposal.
The Holistic Approach of Plastic Waste Recycling for Sustainable Development
This review examines how plastic waste can be incorporated into construction materials including bricks, tiles, concrete, and roads as a binder, aggregate, or modifier. The authors find that using plastic waste in construction reduces landfill burden and dependence on mined resources, though performance effects vary by application.
Recycling of Plastic Waste in the Construction Industry
This review examines the use of recycled plastic waste in construction applications including concrete, asphalt, insulation, and structural composites, assessing the performance, durability, and environmental benefits of incorporating waste plastics into building materials to reduce landfill disposal.
Using Plastic Wastes in Construction: Opportunities and Challenges
This review examines the opportunities and challenges of incorporating plastic waste into construction materials, motivated by rapid urbanization and a pandemic-driven surge in plastic waste generation. The study evaluates technical performance, sustainability trade-offs, and regulatory considerations for using recycled plastics as building materials.
Sustainability Performance of Voided Concrete Slab Using Waste Plastic Bottles
Researchers investigated the sustainability performance of voided concrete slabs incorporating waste plastic bottles as void formers, assessing cost reduction, embodied energy, and CO2 emissions relative to conventional solid slabs. They found that using waste plastic bottles reduced material costs and embodied energy while also lowering CO2 emissions, supporting their use as an environmentally beneficial construction approach.
Life Cycle Carbon Emissions Savings of Replacing Concrete with Recycled Polycarbonate and Sand Composite
Researchers conducted a life cycle assessment comparing recycled polycarbonate-sand composites to conventional concrete, finding significant reductions in carbon emissions. The recycled composite achieved compressive strength of 71 megapascals, far exceeding typical concrete performance. The study suggests that replacing concrete with recycled plastic composites in construction could simultaneously address plastic waste and reduce the carbon footprint of the built environment.
Sustainable Composite Materials: A Review of Waste Reduction Strategies In Manufacturing
This review examines waste reduction strategies for sustainable composite material manufacturing, evaluating approaches including bio-based matrices, recycled reinforcements, and closed-loop production systems for reducing environmental impact and improving resource efficiency.
Marine Plastic Waste in Construction: A Systematic Review of Applications in the Built Environment
This systematic review evaluates how recycled marine plastic waste can be used in construction materials like concrete, asphalt, bricks, and insulation. Reusing ocean plastics in buildings could help reduce the amount of plastic pollution in the environment. While performance varies, this approach offers a promising way to address marine plastic waste while creating useful building materials.
Quantifying the Sustainability of Football (Soccer) Pitches: A Comparison of Artificial and Natural Turf Pitches with a Focus on Microplastics and Their Environmental Impacts
A comparative life cycle assessment of artificial turf and natural grass football pitches found that artificial turf generates substantial microplastic emissions, particularly from rubber crumb infill, with total environmental impacts differing by metric.
Mechanisms of Generation and Ecological Impacts of Nano- and Microplastics from Artificial Turf Systems in Sports Facilities
This review examines how artificial turf in sports facilities generates nano- and microplastics through mechanical wear, UV radiation, and weathering of synthetic grass fibers and infill materials. These plastic particles have been detected in drainage systems and surrounding soils near sports facilities, with laboratory studies showing harmful effects on soil organisms and aquatic life. The findings highlight artificial turf as an overlooked but significant source of microplastic pollution in urban environments.
Reducing the carbon footprint of railway sleepers using recycled plastics
Researchers evaluated the carbon footprint reduction potential of using recycled plastic materials in railway sleeper (tie) manufacturing, comparing lifecycle emissions against conventional concrete and hardwood sleepers. Recycled plastic sleepers showed substantial carbon savings over their full lifecycle.
“Microplastics and Polymers in Construction Materials: Sources, Fate, and Structural/Environmental Impacts”
This review synthesizes evidence that construction practices generate microplastic particles from polymer additives and recycled plastics during manufacturing, placement, and demolition, presents a sampling framework for detecting construction-derived microplastics, and compares identification methods for characterizing these particles.
Review of the Green Composite: Importance of Biopolymers, Uses and Challenges
This review examines the growing role of biopolymers and green composites as environmentally friendly alternatives to conventional petroleum-based plastics. The authors discuss how natural polymer structures can be engineered into composite materials that perform well while reducing long-term environmental harm. The study highlights both the promise and remaining challenges of scaling biopolymer use to replace traditional plastics that persist in the environment.