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

doi:10.1002/cssc.202101872

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

^*Corresponding author for this work

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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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	3982-3984
Number of pages	3
Journal	ChemSusChem
Volume	14
Issue number	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202101872
Publication status	Published - 5 Oct 2021

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SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

Keywords

circular economy
heterogeneous catalysis
plastics
recycling
waste valorization

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

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