Degradable polymers in waste and litter control

Degradable Polymers. Edited by Gerald Scott and Dan Gilead. Published in 1995 by Chapman Hall, London. ISBN 0 412 59010 7 

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G. Scott, D. M. Wiles, Degradable Hydrocarbon Polymers in Waste and Litter Control, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2002. 

DEGRADABLE HYDROCARBON POLYMERS IN WASTE AND LITTER CONTROL... 

Scott G and Wiles D M (2002) Degradable hydrocarbon polymers in waste and litter control in Degradable Polymers Principles and Applications, 2" Edition, Scott. G, ed., Kluwer Acad. Pub., Chapter 13. 

A primary target for degradable plastics is in waste and litter control and most manufacturers of such materials have made claim to the environmental acceptability of their products as replacements for the commodity packaging polymers. A primary criterion of acceptability is cost and few hydro-biodegradable polymers can at the moment approach the hydrocarbon polymers in this respect. Consequently, in the following Sections the emphasis will be on synthetic commodity polymers with enhanced biodegradability in the natural environment. By way of clarification. 

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