Plastic wastes : management, control, recycling, and disposal / U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, T. Randall Curlee, Sujit Das (Oak Ridge National Laboratory).

Wastes in the municipal solid waste stream: Introduction - Production, use and disposal of plastics and plastic products - Impacts of plastic debris on the marine environment - Impacts of post-consumer plastics waste on the management of municipal solid waste - Options to reduce the impacts of post-consumer plastics wastes - Objectives and action items - Appendices - Recycling in the industrial sector: Introduction - The energy content of plastic wastes - The cost of recycling versus disposal - An update of recent institutional changes that may promote recycling - Recent legislative and regulatory actions - The potential for divertable plastic waste - Plastic recycling from the current îndustry´s perspective - Conclusions - Appendix .