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A new method of recycling could minimise millions of tonnes of plastic waste
Every year, approximately 100 million tonnes of multilayer thermoplastics, each consisting of as many as 12 layers of different polymers, are manufactured globally. Forty percent of the amount is waste from the processing process itself, and almost all of that plastic ends up in landfills or incinerators because there is no way to separate the polymers.Now, engineers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have pioneered a technique to reclaim the polymers using solvents in these products, a technique they have called Solvent-Targeted Recovery and Precipitation (STRAP) processing. In the journal Science Advances, their proof-of-concept is detailed today (November 20, 2020).
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