Waste plastic can be recycled into hydrogen fuel and graphene

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Polyethylene, used in plastic bags, can be converted into hydrogen and graphene Jenya Smyk/Shutterstock A new way to make hydrogen from waste plastic also produces graphene as a byproduct. If the graphene is sold at its current market price, it could actually become profitable to generate hydrogen as a clean fuel. The most common way …

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Endlessly recyclable materials could fix our plastic waste crisis

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Untold amounts of plastic waste is polluting our land and seas. Now, we’re using chemical tricks to design infinitely and easily recyclable materials Technology 2 March 2022 By Katharine Sanderson Graham Carter One thing chemists do superbly is make bonds between atoms. We are now wading through the consequences of that success: plastic waste that …

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Endlessly recyclable plastics could fix our waste crisis

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Untold amounts of plastic waste is polluting our land and seas. Now, we’re using chemical tricks to design infinitely and easily recyclable materials Technology 2 March 2022 By Katharine Sanderson Graham Carter One thing chemists do superbly is make bonds between atoms. We are now wading through the consequences of that success: plastic waste that …

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