Large amounts of plastics are discarded worldwide each year, leading to a significant mass
of waste in landfills and pollution to soil, air, and waterways. Upcycling is an efficient way to …

Transforming how plastics are made, unmade, and remade through innovative research and
diverse partnerships that together foster environmental stewardship is critically important to …

The global plastics problem is a trifecta, greatly affecting environment, energy and climate,,–.
Many innovative closed/open-loop plastics recycling or upcycling strategies have been …

Plastic valorization presents a significantly untapped opportunity to address environmental
issues while creating the necessary economic push for a circular carbon economy …

The ubiquitous use of plastics has been driven by their combination of low cost and
properties, but these attributes directly challenge waste management schemes for plastic …

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 …

Various recycling technologies have been developed to deal with plastic problems, but they
face considerable economic and technological challenges in practice. An attractive …

The process of recycling poly (ethylene terephthalate)(PET) remains a major challenge due
to the enzymatic degradation of high-crystallinity PET (hcPET). Recently, a bacterial PET …

Management of the plastic industry is a momentous challenge, one that pits enormous
societal benefits against an accumulating reservoir of nearly indestructible waste. A …

Properly addressing the global issue of unsustainable plastic waste generation and
accumulation will require a confluence of technological breakthroughs on various fronts …