Expanding plastics recycling technologies: chemical aspects, technology status and challenges

H Li, HA Aguirre-Villegas, RD Allen, X Bai… - Green …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Less than 10% of the plastics generated globally are recycled, while the rest are incinerated,
accumulated in landfills, or leak into the environment. New technologies are emerging to …

“Functional upcycling” of polymer waste towards the design of new materials

O Guselnikova, O Semyonov, E Sviridova… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Diversification of polymer waste recycling is one of the solutions to improve the current
environmental scenario. Upcycling is a promising strategy for converting polymer waste into …

Rational design of chemical catalysis for plastic recycling

M Chu, Y Liu, X Lou, Q Zhang, J Chen - Acs Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
Plastics are indispensable, but their pollution is triggering a global environmental crisis.
Although many end-of-life catalytic options have involved converting plastics into valuable …

Catalytic Upcycling of Polyolefins

J Sun, J Dong, L Gao, YQ Zhao, H Moon… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The large production volumes of commodity polyolefins (specifically, polyethylene,
polypropylene, polystyrene, and poly (vinyl chloride)), in conjunction with their low unit …

Sustainable developments in polyolefin chemistry: Progress, challenges, and outlook

XY Wang, Y Gao, Y Tang - Progress in Polymer Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Polyolefins are the largest-scale synthetic plastics and play a key role in modern society.
Their production consumes huge amounts of fossil-derived monomer feedstocks, which …

Upcycling and catalytic degradation of plastic wastes

Q Hou, M Zhen, H Qian, Y Nie, X Bai, T Xia… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2021 - cell.com
Various recycling technologies have been developed to deal with plastic problems, but they
face considerable economic and technological challenges in practice. An attractive …

From trash to treasure: Chemical recycling and upcycling of commodity plastic waste to fuels, high-valued chemicals and advanced materials

F Zhang, F Wang, X Wei, Y Yang, S Xu, D Deng… - Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Of all the existing materials, plastics are no doubt among the most versatile ones. However,
the extreme increases in plastic production as well as the difficulty of the material for …

Hydrogenolysis of polypropylene and mixed polyolefin plastic waste over Ru/C to produce liquid alkanes

JE Rorrer, C Troyano-Valls, GT Beckham… - ACS Sustainable …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Catalytic depolymerization of polyolefins is a promising chemical recycling strategy to create
value-added products from waste plastics, which are accumulating in landfills and the …

Polyethylene hydrogenolysis at mild conditions over ruthenium on tungstated zirconia

C Wang, T Xie, PA Kots, BC Vance, K Yu, P Kumar… - JACS Au, 2021 - ACS Publications
Plastics waste has become a major environmental threat, with polyethylene being one of the
most produced and hardest to recycle plastics. Hydrogenolysis is potentially the most viable …

Solid waste biomass as a potential feedstock for producing sustainable aviation fuel: a systematic review

E Emmanouilidou, S Mitkidou, A Agapiou… - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The aviation industry is one of the most rapidly growing transportation sectors, and
contributes 2% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Next decades, sustainable …