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      10 days ago

      As per the article:

      What plastic

      polyethylene terephthalate (PET)

      How scalable is it

      They’re working on increasing to industrial scale.

      The description of their process sounds fairly exciting, in that it doesn’t need a solvent, uses a cheap, non-toxic catalyst and produces PET precursors. If they manage to get it to industrial scale they’ll go some way to solving the plastic problem.