Automotive Recycling, Plastics, and Sustainability The Recycling Renaissance /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Schönmayr, David (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Θέματα: Business.; Industrial management > Environmental aspects.; Social responsibility of business.; Waste management.; Sustainable development.; Business and Management.; Corporate Environmental Management.; Sustainability Management.; Corporate Social Responsibility.; Waste Management/Waste Technology.; Sustainable Development.

This book provides transdisciplinary analyses of the automotive plastics production and recycling system, including prognoses, scenarios and solutions for corporate sustainability management. A book on plastics, not written by a plastics guy. But a sustainability guy. Plastics schizophrenia and the...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1. A transdisciplinary journey into sustainability science
• 1.1. Transdisciplinarity – why is it so important?
• 1.2. Geographic society and environment research
• 1.3. Systems sciences
• 1.4. Sustainable development
• 1.5. Ecology
• 1.6. Economy
• 1.7. Society, ethics, psychology, politics, and technology
• 1.8. In a nutshell: controversial sustainability as a challenge
• 2. Sustainability and automotive plastics - a controversial industry reality
• 2.1. Plastics
• 2.1.1. Definition and development of plastics
• 2.1.2. The life cycle of plastics
• 2.1.3. Environmental and social impact of plastics
• 2.1.4. Waste treatment technologies for (automotive) plastics
• 2.1.5. Environmentally sound solution: circular life cycle of plastics
• 2.1.6. Plastics are a blessing and a curse - a summary
• 2.2. Automotive plastics
• 2.2.1. Automotive and automotive plastic trends
• 2.2.2. Environmental impact of automotive plastics and cars in general
• 2.2.3.The car life cycle, ELV management, and recycling
• 2.3. In a nutshell: Holistic controversy of automotive plastics
• 3. What do the experts say? The survey results.-3.1. Validation of survey data through expert workshop
• 3.2. Demographic data and details about the survey participants
• 3.3. Automotive plastics recycling and recycled plastics
• 3.4. Special information from the survey groups
• 3.4.1. The survey - automotive group
• 3.4.2.The survey - recycling group
• 3.4.3. The survey - plastics group
• 3.5. In a nutshell: The survey results
• 4. A SCOT analysis, future perspectives and scenarios
• 5. Concepts for solutions to advance automotive recycling
• 5.1. A solution ranking by experts
• 5.2. Solutions for politics, companies, and independent institutions
• 5.3. Elements of a roadmap to ecologically sustainable automotive plastics
• 6. Today’s illusion: true sustainability
• 7. Today’s chance: the recycling renaissance
• 8. Why automotive recycling is an opportunity – an executive summary
• Bibliography.-Appendices
• Glossary
• Methods of the empirical research
• The original survey, and expert interview.