The process can efficiently break down the two main types of post-consumer plastic waste – polyethylene, the component of most single-use plastic bags, and polypropylene, the stuff of hard plastics, ...
Sep. 29, 2022 — Polyethylene plastics -- single-use bags and general-purpose bottles -- are indestructable forever plastics. That also makes them hard to recycle. Chemists have found a way to ...
The catalytic process, developed at the University of California, Berkeley, works equally well with the two dominant types of post-consumer plastic waste: polyethylene, the component of most ...