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Heat and bacteria recycle mixed plastics into useful chemicals

Two-step process converts mixtures of plastic into small molecules, but could be challenging to implement at scale.
  1. Katharine Sanderson

    1. Katharine Sanderson is a freelance journalist based in Cornwall, UK.

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Mixtures of plastics, usually a headache to recycle, have been broken down into useful, smaller chemical ingredients in a two-step process, reported in Science on 13 October1.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03271-w

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