Plastic is a technologically extremely interesting modern material due to the broad range and variability of its properties and relatively simple possibilities of their tuning. It is used for the packaging of food, cosmetics, medicines, toys, technical devices and various tools, and it is also extremely important in the form of basic materials for various technical and other products. Unfortunately, its prevalence is also related to the problem of environmental pollution. This problem is usually addressed by various processes of recycling and utilization of waste plastics, which can take place chemically, enzymatically or mechanically. In this work we focused to some of such well-established procedures and explored the current trends in their developments.
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