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New Process Vaporizes Plastic Bags and Bottles, Yielding Gases to Make New, Recycled Plastics

Adapted from a release by Robert Sanders at UC Berkeley A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics that dominate the waste stream today and turn them into hydrocarbon building blocks for new plastics. The catalytic process, developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley, works equally well with […]