Polymer Municipal Solid Waste in the Environment and Methods for Their Processing

In recent years, the problem of polymer processing has become quite urgent owing to the accumulation of huge amounts of unprocessed polymer municipal solid waste in the environment. The authors discuss the main environmental problems associated with environmental pollution with polymer waste, as well as modern methods of separation, processing (including processing into secondary material resources and thermal processing into thermal and electrical energy) and assessment of the life cycles of polymer municipal solid waste.