All plastic recycling articles
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News
Ten chemistry innovations that Iupac says could change the world
How chemistry can tackle plastic recycling, climate change and Covid-19 among other challenges
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Research
Plastic waste upcycled to high-value chemicals in one-pot process
Polyethylene chains are broken down and aromatised to produce valuable alkylaromatic products
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Research
Designer plastic can be recycled over and over again
Bicyclic thiolactone building block makes for high-quality polymers with chemical recyclability
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Opinion
Addressing the plastics problem
Sustainability must be fully incorporated into material design
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Feature
The plastic sorting challenge
Before we can recycle many plastics, they must be sorted into separate streams. Angeli Mehta finds out how
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Opinion
Plastics and pandemics
The Covid-19 pandemic is our top priority but the plastic problem isn’t going away
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Opinion
Reducing plastic waste in the lab
It’s time to confront the amount of plastic that’s thrown away by scientists each year
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Business
Taking responsibility for waste
How well are companies that produce and use plastics living up to their duty?
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Feature
Plastic recycling heading for the mainstream
Nina Notman talks to some of the companies launching chemical recycling technologies for single-use plastics