Biodegradable Polymers: Value Chain in the Circular Economy

Studying (bio)degradable polymers value chain can help one understand the importance of these to the environment and human health. This book provides an overview of the biodegradable polymer along the value chain, identifies and analyses existing practices for biodegradable plastics and assess the relevant legal, regulatory, economic and practical reasons for the importance of proper use and proper recycling of biodegradable plastics. It covers related materials development, environmental impacts, their synthesis by traditional and biotechnological routes, policy and certification, manufacturing processes, (bio)degradable polymer properties and so forth.

Features:

• Gives a clear idea of the present state of the art and future trends in the research of the biodegradable polymers in the context of circular economy
• Describes the entire value chain and life cycle of biopolymers, considering different types of polymers
• Clarifies the life safety of (bio)degradable polymeric materials
• Presents novel opportunities and ideas for developing or improving technologies
• Determines the course of degradation during prediction study

This book is aimed at researchers, graduate students and professionals in the polymer processing industry (petrochemical polymer industry, industry producing bio-based and (bio)degradable polymers), food packaging industry, industry involved in waste management, pharma industry, chemical engineering, product engineering and biotechnology.

研究可生物降解聚合物價值鏈可以幫助人們了解這些對環境和人類健康的重要性。本書概述了可生物降解聚合物在價值鏈中的應用，並分析了現有的可生物降解塑料實踐，評估了正確使用和回收可生物降解塑料的相關法律、法規、經濟和實際原因的重要性。它涵蓋了相關材料的開發、環境影響、傳統和生物技術路線的合成、政策和認證、製造過程、可生物降解聚合物的性質等等。

特點：
- 在循環經濟背景下清晰介紹了可生物降解聚合物研究的現狀和未來趨勢
- 描述了生物聚合物的整個價值鏈和生命周期，考慮了不同類型的聚合物
- 澄清了可生物降解聚合物材料的生命安全性
- 提出了開發或改進技術的新機會和想法
- 在預測研究中確定了降解過程的走向

本書針對聚合物加工行業（石化聚合物行業、生物基和可生物降解聚合物生產行業）、食品包裝行業、廢物管理行業、製藥行業、化學工程、產品工程和生物技術的研究人員、研究生和專業人士。

Joanna Rydz obtained a doctoral degree at the Jagiellonian University in 2005. She has been working at the Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials, Polish Academy of Sciences since 1995, currently as an adjunct. She is a laureate of several scholarships and researcher positions: the Marie Curie Fellowship at Vienna University of Technology; Scholarship of Slovak Republic for research stay in Polymer Institute SAS in Bratislava; a position at Institute of Polymers BAS in So a. The area of her competence and expertise concerns environmentally friendly (bio)degradable polymers produced from renewable resources, which are currently among the most promising polymers for sustainable development with possible use in agriculture, medicine and particularly in the packaging technologies.

Joanna Rydz於2005年在Jagiellonian大學獲得博士學位。自1995年以來，她一直在波蘭科學院的聚合物和碳材料中心工作，目前擔任副教授。她是幾個獎學金和研究員職位的得主：在維也納科技大學的瑪麗居里獎學金；斯洛伐克共和國為在布拉迪斯拉發聚合物研究所進行研究的獎學金；以及在保加利亞科學院聚合物研究所的職位。她的專業領域和專長涉及從可再生資源生產的環境友好型（生物）可降解聚合物，這些聚合物目前是可持續發展中最有前景的聚合物之一，可能在農業、醫學和尤其是包裝技術中使用。