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  • Scientists crack upcycling plastics to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

    Oct 3, 2022 9:45 am by Claire BenjaminDiscovery
    Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Damien Guironnet and graduate students Vanessa DaSilva and Nicholas Wang demonstrated a new scalable process that can upcycle plastics. Credit: Heather Coit/University of Illinois

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    • Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Damien Guironnet and graduate students Vanessa DaSilva and Nicholas Wang demonstrated a new scalable process that can upcycle plastics. Credit: Heather Coit/University of Illinois

    Researchers have developed a breakthrough process to transform the most widely produced plastic - polyethylene - into the second-most widely produced plastic, polypropylene, which could reduce greenhouse gas emissions.