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New method turns plastic waste into valuable resources with vaporizing process | The new catalysts simplify the process by eliminating the need for a previously crucial step: removing hydrogen to create breakable points in the plastic’s structure.
Scientists at UC Berkeley have developed a groundbreaking chemical process that can transform common plastic waste into new plastic.
“We have an enormous amount of polyethylene and polypropylene in everyday objects, from lunch bags to laundry soap bottles to milk jugs — so much of what’s around us is made of these polyolefins,” said Professor Hartwig in a press release. The new catalysts eliminate the need to remove hydrogen to create breakable carbon-carbon double bonds in the polymer, a crucial step in the previous process. The shift to solid catalysts has paved the way for a continuous flow process, a method widely employed in large-scale industrial reactions due to its efficiency and scalability.
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