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New Technologies are Needed to Improve the Recycling and Upcycling of Waste Plastics

ChemSusChem 2021 31 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Arthur J. Ragauskas, George W. Huber, Wang Jia, Adam M. Guss, Hugh O’Neill, Carol Sze Ki Lin, Yanqin Wang, Frederik R. Wurm, Xianzhi Meng

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This editorial review highlighted urgent needs and emerging chemical technologies for improving the recycling and upcycling of waste plastics, covering challenges related to end-of-life plastic valorization.

In their Editorial to the Special Issue on The Chemistry of Waste Plastics Upcycling, the Guest Editors Adam Guss, George Huber, Carol Lin, Xianzhi Meng, Hugh O'Neill, Arthur Ragauskas, Jia Wang, Yanqin Wang, and Frederik Wurm highlight some of the increasingly urgent efforts being made by chemists to address challenges related to the fate of plastics at the end of, their useful lives and the valorization of plastic waste.

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