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Sunlight-powered process turns plastic waste into acetic acid without emissions
- westurner 8mo agoScholarlyArticle: "Bio‐Inspired Cascade Photocatalysis on Fe Single‐Atom Carbon Nitride Upcycles Plastic Wastes for Effective Acetic Acid Production" (2026) https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.202505453 https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.20...
- westurner 8mo agoLignin-Vitrimer can be recycled with hot acetic acid. If hot acetic acid can be made from plastic waste, I think that almost solves the additional recycling stream problem for Lignin-Vitrimer. There are also processes for hydrogen from plastic and plastic to plastic with just hydrogen
- gus_massa 8mo agoIn case the article is not clear enough, the idea is to use the acetic acid as a insume of other chemical process, not to produce food (vinegar).