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

H Li, HA Aguirre-Villegas, RD Allen, X Bai… - Green …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

Catalytic methods for chemical recycling or upcycling of commercial polymers

SC Kosloski-Oh, ZA Wood, Y Manjarrez… - Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymers (plastics) have transformed our lives by providing access to inexpensive and
versatile materials with a variety of useful properties. While polymers have improved our …

Rational design of chemical catalysis for plastic recycling

M Chu, Y Liu, X Lou, Q Zhang, J Chen - Acs Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
Plastics are indispensable, but their pollution is triggering a global environmental crisis.
Although many end-of-life catalytic options have involved converting plastics into valuable …

Current developments in chemical recycling of post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate wastes for new materials production: A review

AB Raheem, ZZ Noor, A Hassan, MK Abd Hamid… - Journal of cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper appraised divergent chemical depolymerization routes for reprocessing
chemically synthesis polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastics bottle waste and offer …

Progress in the catalytic glycolysis of polyethylene terephthalate

J **n, Q Zhang, J Huang, R Huang, QZ Jaffery… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper briefly reviews the development history of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and
the recycling of PET. As one of the most promising way to degrade PET into oligomers and …

Strategic possibility routes of recycled PET

Damayanti, HS Wu - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
The polyethylene terephthalate (PET) application has many challenges and potential due to
its sustainability. The conventional PET degradation was developed for several technologies …

Chemical recycling processes of waste polyethylene terephthalate using solid catalysts

A Bohre, PR Jadhao, K Tripathi, KK Pant… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a non‐degradable single‐use plastic and a major
component of plastic waste in landfills. Chemical recycling is one of the most widely adopted …

Degradation of poly (ethylene terephthalate) catalyzed by metal-free choline-based ionic liquids

Y Liu, X Yao, H Yao, Q Zhou, J **n, X Lu, S Zhang - Green Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Glycolysis of poly (ethylene terephthalate)(PET) is a prospective way for degradation of PET
to its monomer bis (hydroxyethyl) terephthalate (BHET) which can be polymerized again to …

Back-to-monomer recycling of polycondensation polymers: opportunities for chemicals and enzymes

S Thiyagarajan, E Maaskant-Reilink, TA Ewing… - RSC …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of plastics in a wide range of applications has grown substantially over recent
decades, resulting in enormous growth in production volumes to meet demand. Though a …

Optimisation of PET glycolysis by applying recyclable heterogeneous organocatalysts

Z Fehér, J Kiss, P Kisszékelyi, J Molnár, P Huszthy… - Green …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Chemical depolymerisation, or solvolysis, can be a sustainable plastic recycling method, as
a circular economy can be achieved by recovering the pure monomers. Polyethylene …