94a9dcb0-4307-446e-b7a3-09875977b59e20231107061049574wseas:wseasmdt@crossref.orgMDT DepositInternational Journal of Environmental Engineering and Development2945-115910.37394/232033https://wseas.com/journals/ijeed/61920236192023110.37394/232033.2023.1https://wseas.com/journals/ijeed/2023.phpAntonioPratelliDepartment of Civil and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Pisa Largo Lucio Lazzarino 2, 56122 PISA, ITALYPatriziaCinelliDepartment of Civil and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Pisa Largo Lucio Lazzarino 2, 56122 PISA, ITALYMauriziaSeggianiDepartment of Civil and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Pisa Largo Lucio Lazzarino 2, 56122 PISA, ITALYGiovannaStrangisDepartment of Civil and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Pisa Largo Lucio Lazzarino 2, 56122 PISA, ITALYMassimilianoPetriDepartment of Civil and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Pisa Largo Lucio Lazzarino 2, 56122 PISA, ITALYThis article aims at describing both the studies and results implemented in the framework of the H2020-EU research project “RECOVER: New bio-recycling routes for food packaging and agricultural plastic waste” which deals with the sustainability of innovative biodegradation processes for plastic waste and production, in any environmental, social, economic and safety matters. In such a framework, the POLOG University Centre (Livorno, Italy), reconstructed and analyzed the actual farm plastic waste supply chain, as described in the following sections. The first section is introductive and it has been intended as a primer to the most common different types of plastic materials. The second section has deserved to be a state of the art on the most relevant issues raised in plastic waste management. The third section deals with suitable approaches to address the environmental side effects of rapidly growing plastics production, use, and disposal. Some of these approaches were listed, such as physical treatment of the polymeric components, plastic reduction use and employment as much as mechanical and/or chemical recycling and energy recovery. The fourth section shows how some of the above main issues, which raise coping with plastic reduction and recycling, are suited to be coped with from a logistics perspective. Such logistics belong to the basic needs due to tackling any plastic waste supply chain, i.e. collection and transport to intermediate stock and final delivery to recycling plants and/or brownfields, applying the set of methodologies and techniques drawn from the well-known field of pick-up-anddelivery models. These last tasks become crucial when the main effort has addressed the enforcement of any feasible changes from the use of items made in old high environmental intrusive to their replacement with new agricultural and biodegradable plastics. The paper goes to end presenting shortly of a few suitable solutions that could be proposed and applied to the entire plastic waste supply chain. 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