Anthony Andrady

Apr 15, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Anthony Andrady |Paul Barnes |Rosa Busquets |Laura Revell

UV radiation, climate change, and plastic pollution are closely interlinked. Existing studies on the persistence of plastics do not fully consider these linkages, challenging global assessments of plastic dispersal, persistence, and weathering. Recently, an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee was tasked with developing an international binding agreement to end plastic pollution.

Apr 12, 2023 | mdpi.com | Anthony Andrady |Halim Hamid Redhwi |Mohammad Nahid Siddiqui |Sarfaraz A. Furquan

3. Results and DiscussionIncorporating the wood fiber into a polymer matrix can be monitored with FTIR used in the Attenuated Total Reflection (FTIR-ATR) mode. The spectra of dry composites display the characteristic -OH absorption peak associated with cellulose and hemicellulose fractions, which appears around 3500 cm−1. As expected, both HDPE and PP show this absorption band in that wavelength region.