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Futurologist@futurology.today to Futurology@futurology.todayEnglish · 11 months ago

‘Chemical recycling’: 15-minute reaction turns old clothes into useful molecules

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‘Chemical recycling’: 15-minute reaction turns old clothes into useful molecules

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Futurologist@futurology.today to Futurology@futurology.todayEnglish · 11 months ago
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Fast fashion creates millions of tonnes of waste each year — could clever chemistry help to tackle the problem?
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    Hmm, I just read an article on chemical recycling that had a very negative take:

    The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling Using Pyrolysis — ProPublica (Jun 2024) https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/the-delusion-of-advanced-plastic-recycling-using-pyrolysis-propublica.441/

    But I don’t see Pyrolysis mentioned so perhaps this different method doesn’t have the same problems.

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