Advancing Sustainability in Modern Polymer Processing: Strategies for Waste Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Integration.

By the late 1970s, plastics had emerged as the most widely used materials globally. The discovery, development, and processing of diverse polymeric materials have profoundly shaped modern life and driven the expansion of numerous industries. Given the widespread interest in the utilization of these materials, it has become increasingly imperative to design their life cycles from the outset.