Vaporizing Plastic Waste

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Plastic waste turned into valuable resources with vaporizing process

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Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley , have unveiled a chemical process that has the potential to revolutionize plastic recycling.

The new catalytic process can effectively break down polyethylene and polypropylene, which together constitute a staggering two-thirds of all post-consumer plastic waste globally.

New catalysts eliminate the need to remove hydrogen to create breakable carbon-carbon double bonds in the polymer, a crucial step in the previous process.

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