Guoliang “Greg” Liu of the Department of Chemistry has discovered a new method of recycling plastics — from milk cartons, food containers, and plastic bags — into soap. The method: Heat the long carbon chains in the plastics then quickly cool them.
  • HiDiddlyDoodlyHo@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    11 months ago

    How scalable is this? Would the average recycle plant worker be able to do it themselves? Would each recycle plant be equipped with one of these ovens or would it require an overhaul of our recycling system?

    • Akasazh
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      11 months ago

      If you want to deep dive into this transformative nature of chemistry, check out nilered on YouTube. He does videos where he transforms plastic gloves into hot sauce and cotton balls into cotton candy.

      Really amazing to follow his process and way of thinking.