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

Houqian Li; Horacio A. Aguirre-Villegas; Robert D. Allen; Xianglan Bai; Craig H. Benson; Gregg T. Beckham; Sabrina L. Bradshaw; Jessica L. Brown; Robert C. Brown; Victor S. Cecon; Julia B. Curley; Greg W. Curtzwiler; Son Dong; Soumika Gaddameedi; John E. García; Ive Hermans; Min Soo Kim; Jiaze Ma; Lesli O. Mark; Manos Mavrikakis; Olumide O. Olafasakin; Tim A. Osswald; Konstantinos G. Papanikolaou; Harish Radhakrishnan; Marco Antonio Sanchez Castillo; Kevin L. Sánchez-Rivera; Khairun N. Tumu; Reid C. Van Lehn; Keith L. Vorst; Mark M. Wright; Jiayang Wu; Victor M. Zavala; Panzheng Zhou; George W. Huber

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

Houqian Li, Horacio A. Aguirre-Villegas, Robert D. Allen, Xianglan Bai, Craig H. Benson, Gregg T. Beckham, Sabrina L. Bradshaw, Jessica L. Brown, Robert C. Brown, Victor S. Cecon, Julia B. Curley, Greg W. Curtzwiler, Son Dong, Soumika Gaddameedi, John E. García, Ive Hermans, Min Soo Kim, Jiaze Ma, Lesli O. Mark, Manos MavrikakisOlumide O. Olafasakin, Tim A. Osswald, Konstantinos G. Papanikolaou, Harish Radhakrishnan, Marco Antonio Sanchez Castillo, Kevin L. Sánchez-Rivera, Khairun N. Tumu, Reid C. Van Lehn, Keith L. Vorst, Mark M. Wright, Jiayang Wu, Victor M. Zavala, Panzheng Zhou, George W. Huber^*

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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 chemically recycle waste plastics that are receiving tremendous interest from academia and industry. Chemists and chemical engineers need to understand the fundamentals of these technologies to design improved systems for chemical recycling and upcycling of waste plastics. In this paper, we review the entire life cycle of plastics and options for the management of plastic waste to address barriers to industrial chemical recycling and further provide perceptions on possible opportunities with such materials. Knowledge and insights to enhance plastic recycling beyond its current scale are provided. Outstanding research problems and where researchers in the field should focus their efforts in the future are also discussed. © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2022.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	8899-9002
Journal	Green Chemistry
Volume	24
Issue number	23
Online published	14 Sept 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/d2gc02588d
Publication status	Published - 7 Dec 2022
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Li, H., Aguirre-Villegas, H. A., Allen, R. D., Bai, X., Benson, C. H., Beckham, G. T., Bradshaw, S. L., Brown, J. L., Brown, R. C., Cecon, V. S., Curley, J. B., Curtzwiler, G. W., Dong, S., Gaddameedi, S., García, J. E., Hermans, I., Kim, M. S., Ma, J., Mark, L. O., ... Huber, G. W. (2022). Expanding plastics recycling technologies: chemical aspects, technology status and challenges. Green Chemistry, 24(23), 8899-9002. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2gc02588d

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