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Sustainable chemical upcycling of waste polyolefins by heterogeneous catalysis
SusMat, 2022 The mass production of disposable polyolefin products has led to serious plastic pollution and an imbalance between manufacturing and recycling. Given these challenges, the chemical upcycling of waste polyolefins has attracted extensive attention due to ...
Jinxing Chen, Congyang Zhang
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Nature CommunicationsElectrocatalytic upcycling of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastics offers a promising and sustainable route that not only addresses serious waste pollution but also produces high value-added chemicals.
Shu Han +3 more
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Chemical Upcycling of Polyphenylene Sulfide at Room Temperature [PDF]
Advanced SciencePolyphenylene sulfide (PPS) is a semi‐crystalline super engineering plastic with exceptional chemical resistance, thermal stability, and mechanical integrity.
Boning Gu, Chengliang Li, Xuefeng Jiang
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Engineering microbial consortia for mixed plastic upcycling. [PDF]
Nat CommunRecent studies in developing processes using ‘single’ plastic waste for microbial conversion have demonstrated great promise in advancing a circular economy.
Diao J, Tian Y, Park S, Cho SM, Moon TS.
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Remediation and upcycling of microplastics by algae with wastewater nutrient removal and bioproduction potential [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsMicroplastics have emerged as major environmental hazards that require efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable remediation technologies. This study introduces an integrative platform for the remediation and upcycling of microplastics by algae, while ...
Bin Long +10 more
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Catalysis Communications, 2022 Medium-chain oxygenates as jet-fuel range precursors were produced from carbonyl model compounds in aqueous phase pyrolysis oil via aldol-condensation reaction on La-based mixed oxides.
Hye-Jin Lee, Il-Ho Choi, Kyung-Ran Hwang
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SUCCEED: Sharing Upcycling Cases with Context and Evaluation for Efficient Software Development
Information, 2023 Software upcycling, a form of software reuse, is a concept that efficiently generates novel, innovative, and value-added development projects by utilizing knowledge extracted from past projects.
Takuya Nakata +3 more
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Novel Carbon Dioxide Utilization Technologies: A Means to an End
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2020 Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is an essential feature of climate mitigation. With current techniques falling short in terms of performance, cost, and environmental integrity, novel CO2 utilization has the potential to create a multi-billion dollar ...
Yusra Warsi +3 more
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Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 2022 The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals aim to ‘do more and better with less’, with numerous calls to action arising from the business sector concerning the substantial reduction of targeted types of commercial and industrial waste ...
Savindi Caldera +4 more
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Upcycling – a new perspective on waste in social innovation
Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2016 The purpose of this paper is to introduce ‘upcycling’ – a well-known term within design practice – to the field of social innovation. A mix between ‘upgrading’ (adding value) and ‘recycling’ (reusing) creates the word upcycling, which, in its simplest ...
Charlotte Wegener, Marie Aakjær
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