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

Journal Article · Tue Oct 05 04:00:00 EDT 2021 · ChemSusChem

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202101872· OSTI ID:1843677

Ragauskas, Arthur J. ^[1]; Huber, George W. ^[2]; Wang, Jia ^[3]; Guss, Adam ^[4]; O'Neill, Hugh M. ^[4]; Lin, Carol Sze Ki ^[5]; Wang, Yanqin ^[6]; Wurm, Frederik R. ^[7]; Meng, Xianzhi ^[8]

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1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
2. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
3. Nanjing Forestry Univ. (China)
4. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
5. City Univ. of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
6. East China Univ. of Science and Technology, Shanghai (China)
7. Univ. of Twente, Enschede (Netherlands)
8. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)

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.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• Grant/Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1843677
• Journal Information: ChemSusChem, Journal Name: ChemSusChem Journal Issue: 19 Vol. 14; ISSN 1864-5631
• Publisher: ChemPubSoc Europe
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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