Scientists use everyday plastics to initiate innovative chain reactions, developing a method to recycle plastic waste and improve both safety and efficiency in the process.
Single-use plastics are a major environmental concern, but now, rather than being disposed of as garbage, used plastic bags from the grocery stores could be utilized to carry out a reaction that can detoxify hazardous chemicals.
A team led by researchers at the Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University has developed a method that uses common plastic materials instead of potentially explosive compounds to initiate radical chain reactions. This approach significantly increases the safety of the process while also providing a way to reuse common plastics such as polyethylene and polyvinyl acetate. These findings have been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
From:SciTechDaily
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