From trash to cash: current strategies for bio-upcycling of recaptured monomeric building blocks from poly (ethylene terephthalate)(PET) waste

A Carniel, NF dos Santos, FS Buarque… - Green …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Plastic pollution has been a topic of grave concern worldwide due to major environmental,
economic, health, and social impacts. Nevertheless, our society is far from casting plastics …

Toward Replacing Ethylene Oxide in a Sustainable World: Glycolaldehyde as a Bio‐Based C2 Platform Molecule

WH Faveere, S Van Praet, B Vermeeren… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Fossil‐based platform molecules such as ethylene and ethylene oxide currently serve as the
primary feedstock for the C2‐based chemical industry. However, in the search for a more …