New Technologies Are Needed to Improve the Recycling and Upcycling of Waste Plastics

Overview

Journal ChemSusChem

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2021 Oct 5

PMID 34609796

Citations 4

Authors

Arthur J Ragauskas

George W Huber

Jia Wang

Adam Guss

Hugh M ONeill

Carol Sze Ki Lin

Yanqin Wang

Frederik R Wurm

Xianzhi Meng

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Abstract

In their Editorial to the Special Issue on The Chemistry of Waste Plastics Upcycling, the Guest Editors Adam Guss, George Huber, Carol Lin, Xianzhi Meng, Hugh O'Neill, Arthur Ragauskas, Jia Wang, Yanqin Wang, and Frederik Wurm highlight some of the increasingly urgent efforts being made by chemists to address challenges related to the fate of plastics at the end of, their useful lives and the valorization of plastic waste.

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