ABSTRACT

That strategy has also been applied to plastic waste. Polymers belong to materials whose consumption is steadily increasing in a global dimension. Although the economical crisis has markedly inuenced most industries, the branch of polymer manufacturing and processing of plastics suffered much less than the others. One of the reasons is an uneven development of plastics in different regions and high demand for polymers in the fast developing countries, where the consumption of plastics is substantially lower than that in the leading economies, who suffered much heavier crisis. The economical reasons with higher emphasis on the reasonable consumption of resources and more ecological approach to business with higher respect to

CONTENTS

12.1 Introduction ................................................................................................ 313 12.2 Recycling of PLA Nanocomposites ......................................................... 317 12.3 Inuence of a Processing History on the Morphology

and Properties of Nanocomposites ......................................................... 325 12.4 Conclusions .................................................................................................334 Acknowledgments ..............................................................................................334 References .............................................................................................................335

the environment have focused more attention to recycling. Multiple use of materials in their life cycle (Figure 12.1) saves resources and money, as well as reduces amount of waste dumped in landlls.