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The catalytic process, discovered by researchers at UC Berkeley , efficiently reduces polymers to chemical precursors, bringing a circular economy for plastics one step closer to reality.
The process, if scaled up, could help bring about a circular.
economy for many throwaway plastics, with plastic waste converted back into the monomers used to make polymers.
The tungsten catalyst was even more effective than the sodium catalyst in breaking polypropylene chains.
The two catalysts avoided the need to remove hydrogen to form a breakable carbon-carbon double bond in the polymer.
Polyethylene and polypropene don’t have this Achilles heel — their long chains of single carbon bonds are very strong.
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