**Meet the editor**

Dimitris S. Achilias occupies the position of Associate Professor in Polymer Chemistry and Technology at the Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He obtained his diploma in Chemical Engineering from AUTh in 1985 and his Ph.D. degree in 1991. He has published more than 76 papers in international refereed journals and presented over 100 papers

in international and local peer reviewed conferences. He has participated in the writing of 2 educating books in Greek and 4 chapters in international scientific books. He has had up to now over 1400 citations on his work, with an h-index 22 and serves as a reviewer in several journals. His current research interests include chemical recycling, degradation and crystallization kinetics of polymers.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 2 **Recent Developments in** 

**Part 1 Recycling of Polymers 1** 

Chapter 1 **Recent Advances in the Chemical Recycling of Polymers** 

Chapter 3 **Overview on Mechanical Recycling** 

Chapter 4 **Poly(bisphenol A carbonate) Recycling:** 

Chapter 6 **Materials and Methods for the** 

Chapter 7 **Pyrolysis of Waste Polystyrene** 

Kyong-Hwan Lee

Chapter 5 **PVB Sheet Recycling and Degradation 133** 

Luis Noreña, Julia Aguilar, Violeta Mugica, Mirella Gutiérrez and Miguel Torres

**and High-Density Polyethylene 175** 

**(PP, PS, LDPE, HDPE, PVC, PC, Nylon, PMMA) 3**  Dimitris S. Achilias, Lefteris Andriotis, Ioannis A. Koutsidis, Dimitra A. Louka, Nikolaos P. Nianias, Panoraia Siafaka,

Leian Bartolome, Muhammad Imran, Bong Gyoo Cho,

**by Chain Extension of POSTC-PET Bottles 85**  Doina Dimonie, Radu Socoteanu, Simona Pop, Irina Fierascu, Radu Fierascu, Celina Petrea, Catalin Zaharia and Marius Petrache

Giulia Bozzano, Mario Dente and Renato Del Rosso

Michael Tupý, Dagmar Měřínská and Věra Kašpárková

**Chemical Catalytic Cracking of Plastic Waste 151** 

**High Pressure Hydrolysis Can Be a Convenient Way 115** 

Ioannis Tsagkalias and Georgia Tsintzou

**the Chemical Recycling of PET 65** 

Waheed A. Al-Masry and Do Hyun Kim
