Research and Case Study

Plastics waste management is a multidisciplinary process involving areas where case studies are of benefit. Many research questions in plastics waste management are suitable for case study research and the case study methodology is well suited for many types/aspects of plastics waste management. Research into plastics waste is a contemporary development and is complicated by the fact the waste components/processes are difficult to study in isolation. 

European Council Directive 91/156/EEC Official Journal of the European Union, 1991, L078, 32. 

Thematic Strategy on the Prevention and Recycling of Waste, COM(2005) 666 Final, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, 2005. 

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Merriam, S. B. (1998). Qualitative research and case study applications in education (2nd ed.). San Francisco, CA Jossey-Bass. 

Sciuto, A.M., Inhalation toxicology of an irritant gas—historical perspectives, current research, and case studies of phosgene exposure, in Inhalation Toxicology, Second Edition, Salem, H. and Katz, S.A., Eds., Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2006, pp. 457 83. 

Additionally, the EPA pubhshes a newsletter entitled Pollution Prevention News that contains information including EPA news, technologies, program updates, and case studies. The EPA s Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratoiy and the Center for Environmental Research Information has pubhshed several guidance documents, developed in cooperation with the California Department of Health Services. The manuals supplement generic waste reduction information presented in the EPA s Waste Minimization Opportunity Assessment Manual (Ref. 9). 

This approach combines deductive and inductive research steps (Popper 1959, pp. 27-33) and complies with the process proposed by Ulrich/Hill (1976). This process includes cases studies as one mean of deductive research. A case study serves as one basis for the definition of industry requirements existing in reality in chapter 4 as well as a test bed for the model evaluation in chapter 6. A mapping of each chapter to the research process of Ulrich and Hill (1976), p. 348 is summarized in table 1. 

See May F. Katzen, "The Changing Appearance of Research Journals in Science and Technology An Analysis and Case Study," 177214, in A. J. Meadows, ed., Development of Science Publishing. And Holmes, Eighteenth-Century Chemistry, 34. 

H.B. Logan, News of an exciting discovery," Better Homes and Gardens (October 1939) 13, 94, 104-105 quote p. 94. On the role of the Research Corporation in mediating between academia and industry in the first half of the twentieth century, see C. Weiner, Patenting and academic research Historical case studies, Science, Technology, and Human Value 12 (1987) 50-62. In this case the Research Corporation funds chan-... 

Complete with an abundance of figures, tables, equations, and case studies, this book will serve as the ideal one-stop reference for researchers, engineers, and students working on developing the carbon-based energy storage and conversion systems of tomorrow. 

Lilienfeld DE. 1991b. The silence The asbestos industry and early occupational cancer research—a case study. Am J Public Health 81(6) 791-800. 

The book focuses on the details of two or three aspects of problems related to each selected topic. Clinical and research data are used to illustrate these problems, and case studies are frequently presented. Emphasis on primary data is intended to encourage readers to use their own trained judgment when examining data from the literature as well as data from their own research experience. 

National Research Council. 1986. Ecological Knowledge and Environmental Problem-Solving Concepts and Case Studies. National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 

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