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

Arthur J. Ragauskas*, George W. Huber, Jia Wang, Adam Guss, Hugh M. O'Neill, 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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3982-3984
Number of pages3
JournalChemSusChem
Volume14
Issue number19
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 Oct 2021

Keywords

  • circular economy
  • heterogeneous catalysis
  • plastics
  • recycling
  • waste valorization

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