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Break down into what? Is this also going to end up in my testicles?

• tigerBL00D 2y ago
  It says "Leveraging the trace amounts of moisture in air, the broken-down PET is converted into monomers—the crucial building blocks for plastics. From there, the researchers envision the monomers could be recycled into new PET products or other, more valuable materials." I don't know if there's some enormous challenge hiding behind the word "envision", but I'm assuming it's a closed system until something useful comes out of the other end. The method just can't be a lot more expensive than to make the same thing/material from scratch or it's never going to gain traction.
  • Imustaskforhelp 2y ago
    Well let's truly hope that its not that much expensive
• __MatrixMan__ 2y ago
  terephthalic acid and acetaldehyde (the paper: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2025/gc/d4gc05916f https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2025/gc/d4gc0591...)
• hnbad 2y ago
  If you're worrying about microplastics in your testicles, you're still underestimating how much plastic is in your body. Literally infants will already have microplastic in their blood at birth.