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ClearPlastic Waste Upcycling: A Sustainable Solution for Waste Management, Product Development, and Circular Economy
This review examined plastic waste upcycling as a sustainable alternative to conventional recycling, covering methods that transform plastic waste into value-added products and support circular economy goals while addressing environmental pollution.
Exploration of Interior Material Based on Plastic Waste
Researchers explored the potential for plastic waste to be transformed into interior design materials, using observation, interviews, and documentation methods to analyze the process from material collection through fabrication. The study characterized the physical and chemical properties of plastic waste relevant to its use as an interior material and assessed structural strength alongside its environmental risks.
Creative Ways to Repurpose Textile Waste for Sustainable Interior Design
This study examines how textile waste, which contributes approximately 42 million tons of plastic waste annually including 9% of ocean microplastics, can be sustainably repurposed for interior design and construction through integration of recycled fabrics and textile remnants. Case study analysis demonstrated that repurposed textile materials can produce durable and aesthetically functional interior elements while promoting resource efficiency.
Designing Ready-to-wear Deluxe Fashion with Lontara Bugis Motifs Using Plastic Bag Waste and Stitching Techniques
Researchers developed a ready-to-wear deluxe party attire collection repurposing single-use plastic bag waste combined with Bugis Lontara script motifs, using qualitative methods including expert interviews and user testing to design fashion pieces that address both plastic pollution and the cultural preservation of a traditional Indonesian script.
Design Aesthetics Methods: Chinese Graduate Students Using Laundry Bags in the UK as an Example
This paper is not about microplastics; it is a design research methods article using Chinese graduate students' use of laundry bags in the UK as a case study to demonstrate design research processes.
Embodied eco-embroidery
This paper is not about microplastics; it reports on a transdisciplinary arts-and-crafts embroidery project as a model for sustainable STEAM education, exploring how creative craftsmanship can foster environmental awareness in students.
Employment of Waste from the Textile Industry for the Production of Nanocomposites Aiming at the Generation of Thermal Shrinkable Films and the Non-Formation of Microplastics
Researchers used recycled textile waste to create nanocomposite materials for making heat-shrinkable films, aiming to reduce microplastic generation compared to conventional plastic films. The approach repurposes discarded clothing into functional materials, addressing both textile waste and the microplastic pollution from degrading synthetic fabrics.
Transforming Bale Twine into Useful Products with an Affordable Melting Machine: Closed-Loop for Recycling Plastics
Researchers developed an affordable melting machine to transform agricultural bale twine waste into useful plastic products, creating a closed-loop recycling pathway for plastic materials that would otherwise end up in landfills. The study demonstrates that locally processed bale twine can be converted into functional items while reducing microplastic and toxic chemical release from improper disposal.
Upcycling plastic waste through empirical implementation of large-scale 3D printing
This design research project explored large-scale 3D printing as a method for upcycling waste plastic into usable products, addressing the quality concerns that have limited plastic recycling adoption. While focused on waste reduction rather than microplastics specifically, reducing plastic waste helps prevent the breakdown of plastics into microplastics.
Textile solid waste in product development studies
This review covers how textile solid waste — a major and growing global waste stream — is being used in product development studies. Finding new uses for waste textiles could reduce the volume of synthetic fabrics that degrade into microplastic fibers in the environment.
Sustainable collection development towards greener future: Earthsavers
Researchers examined the 'Earthsavers' sustainable textile collection as a case study in environmentally aware fashion design, analyzing how the collection addresses environmental harms from the textile sector including waste disposal, resource depletion, and the role of synthetic plastic-based fabrics.
Preliminary study of weave pattern influence on microplastics from fabric laundering
A preliminary study examined how fabric weave pattern affects the release of microplastic fibers from textiles during laundering. Different weave structures produced varying amounts of fiber release, suggesting that fabric design choices can influence the quantity of microplastics discharged to wastewater systems.
Invisible Waste, Circular Solutions: an Action Research Experience in the Energy Industry
Researchers applied action research methodology to investigate circular economy solutions for textile waste at a multinational energy company in Brazil, proposing an upcycling-based approach to reduce and mitigate the socio-environmental impacts of textile waste generation in industrial settings.
Plastic Waste to Value-Added Products via Recycling and Upcycling
This review examined pathways for converting plastic waste into value-added products through recycling and upcycling, framing solutions within a circular economy approach. The paper surveyed mechanical, chemical, and biological conversion technologies and assessed their potential to reduce plastic waste while generating economically useful outputs.
Properties of Simulated Plastic Waste Mixtures in Upcycling Processes: An Experimental Evaluation
This study evaluated the mechanical and thermal properties of ternary and quaternary blends of low-density polyethylene and polypropylene to simulate mixed plastic waste, finding that blend composition significantly affects material quality and identifying optimal formulations for upcycling processes.
Research on Recycling Design of Clothing Textiles Based on Sustainable Development
This review examines sustainable design strategies for recycling and reusing clothing and textiles, covering the full lifecycle from design to end-of-life disposal. Textile recycling is relevant to microplastic pollution because synthetic fabrics like polyester and nylon shed microplastic fibers during washing.
Upcycling Plastic Waste into High Value‐Added Carbonaceous Materials
This review examines methods for converting plastic waste into high-value carbonaceous materials through upcycling techniques. Researchers surveyed approaches for transforming discarded plastics into products such as carbon fibres, water purification absorbents, and energy storage electrodes. The study suggests that upcycling plastic waste into carbon-based materials offers a practical alternative to conventional disposal methods like landfilling and incineration.
Assessment of Plastic-Infused Concrete Bricks and Their Suitability for Interlocking: Mechanical, Durability, and Environmental Perspectives
Researchers tested plastic-infused concrete bricks as a way to repurpose plastic waste in construction materials, evaluating their mechanical strength and suitability for different building applications. The study explores whether incorporating plastic waste into durable materials can reduce the plastic entering the environment as microplastics.
Valorization of post-consumer plastic packaging into a composite material
This study developed a composite building material from post-consumer mixed plastic packaging waste, providing a higher-value end use that diverts plastic from landfill. Using plastic waste in durable construction products reduces the amount available to degrade into microplastics in the environment.
Designing Eco-Effective Products: A Seeded Textile Approach
Researchers explored eco-effective textile design by developing seeded textiles that redirect the end-of-life trajectory of synthetic fabrics away from linear waste pathways that generate persistent microplastics. Drawing on the Cradle to Cradle model, the project investigated incorporating seeds into textile materials to enable biodegradation and ecological reintegration after consumer use.
Combining Flexible and Sustainable Design Principles for Evaluating Designs: Textile Recycling Application
Researchers developed a framework combining flexible and sustainable design principles to evaluate textile recycling technologies. The study addresses the growing environmental burden of textile waste in the U.S., where over 15 million tons are discarded annually with less than 15% recycled, contributing to microplastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. The proposed evaluation method aims to help identify recycling approaches that are both economically viable and environmentally responsible.
From Trash to Fashion: Understanding Wearable Art as Environmental Activism
This paper examines wearable art projects that incorporate plastic waste as a form of environmental activism and material rhetoric, arguing that fashioning trash into garments makes ecological crises tangible and challenges consumer culture through aesthetic engagement.
A Practical Valorization Approach for Mitigating Textile Fibrous Microplastics in the Environment: Collection of Textile-Processing Waste Microfibers and Direct Reuse in Green Thermal-Insulating and Mechanical-Performing Composite Construction Materials
Researchers proposed and demonstrated the direct collection and reuse of textile finishing waste microfibers as reinforcement in thermally insulating composite construction materials, diverting a significant fraction of Italy's estimated 5000 tonnes per year of textile processing waste fibers from environmental release. The composite materials met performance benchmarks for construction applications, offering both environmental and economic benefits.
Textile Waste in Civil Construction: A Systematic Review of Applications and Benefits
This systematic review evaluated the use of textile waste in civil construction materials, finding that recycled textile fibers can improve the mechanical properties of composites like concrete and mortar. Repurposing textile waste into construction materials could help reduce the volume of synthetic fibers that otherwise degrade into microplastics in the environment.