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Mon, 09 May 2022
Method reduces plastic bottles to basic components suitable for reuse

Metal-organic framework used to degrade plastics

Discarded plastic bottles abound. Simple and effective methods to recycle, repurpose or reuse the omnipresent debris do not. Chemists at Northwestern University, …

Mon, 09 May 2022
Chemists harness the power of the sun to upcycle plastic waste

Light, oxygen and a catalyst convert polystyrene into benzoic acid

Polystyrene winds up in landfills and makes up about a third of landfill waste across the globe. A team of chemists at Cornell University, partially supported by a …

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Mon, 09 May 2022Method reduces plastic bottles to basic components suitable for reuse

Mon, 09 May 2022Chemists harness the power of the sun to upcycle plastic waste

Mon, 09 May 2022
Method reduces plastic bottles to basic components suitable for reuse

Mon, 09 May 2022
Chemists harness the power of the sun to upcycle plastic waste