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• TITLE: Photocatalytic Degradation of Plastic Waste: Recent Progress and Future Perspectives

  AUTHORS: Amra Bratovcic

  KEYWORDS: Plastic Waste, Microplastics, Photocatalytic Method, Degradation, Semiconductors, Heterogeneous Photocatalysts

  JOURNAL NAME: Advances in Nanoparticles, Vol.13 No.3, July 16, 2024

  ABSTRACT: Microplastics are persistent anthropogenic pollutants that have become a global concern due to their widespread distribution and unfamiliar threat to the environment and living organisms. Conventional technologies are unable to fully decompose and mineralize plastic waste. Therefore, there is a need to develop an environmentally friendly, innovative and sustainable photocatalytic process that can destroy these wastes with much less energy and chemical consumption. In photocatalysis, various nanomaterials based on wide energy band gap semiconductors such as TiO2 and ZnO are used for the conversion of plastic contaminants into environmentally friendly compounds. In this work, the removal of plastic fragments by photocatalytic reactions using newly developed photocatalytic composites and the mechanism of photocatalytic degradation of microplastics are systematically investigated. In these degradation processes, sunlight or an artificial light source is used to activate the photocatalyst in the presence of oxygen.