• notabot@lemm.ee
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    17 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.