Evolving a Circular Plastics Economy

People Involved

Professor Kevin Burden K.J.Burden@hull.ac.uk
Professor of Educational Technology

Professor Richard Barnes

Professor Rudi Wurzel R.K.Wurzel@hull.ac.uk
Professor of Comparative European Politics and Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Studies.

Dr Felix Why

Professor Gerald Midgley G.R.Midgley@hull.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Systems Thinking

Dr Chandrasekhar Kambhampati C.Kambhampati@hull.ac.uk
Emeritus Academic

Professor Pauline Deutz P.Deutz@hull.ac.uk
Visiting Professor of Circular Economy and Society

Professor Nishikant Mishra Nishikant.Mishra@hull.ac.uk
Professor/ Head of Management Systems Subject Group

Professor Will Mayes W.Mayes@hull.ac.uk
Environmental Science

Dr Victoria-Sophie Osburg

Dr Sharif Zein

Professor Daniel Parsons

Dr Michael Farrelly

Emeritus Professor Carl Redshaw C.Redshaw@hull.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor

Dr Vicky Skoulou V.Skoulou@hull.ac.uk
Graduate Research Director (GRD) of School of Engineering ; Assoc. Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Chemical Engineering ; PI of the B3: Biomass Waste- BioenergH2- Biochars Challenge Group of PGRs and PDRAs

Comparative assessment of marine weathering of ROP-derived biopolymers against conventional plastics (2021)
Journal Article
Rodgers, K., Mayes, W. M., Santoro, O., Redshaw, C., Mccumskay, R., & Parsons, D. R. (2021). Comparative assessment of marine weathering of ROP-derived biopolymers against conventional plastics. Marine pollution bulletin, 167, Article 112272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112272

Bio-based plastics were designed to replace single-use plastics and to cause less post-consumer environmental damage. This paper assesses the weathering of four bio-based polymers created by ring opening polymerization (ROP) promoted by a previously... Read More about Comparative assessment of marine weathering of ROP-derived biopolymers against conventional plastics.