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Hard-to-recycle thermoset waste plastics reborn as hydrogen
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Hard-to-recycle thermoset waste plastics reborn as hydrogen

Process Flow Syngas-Based H₂ Production from Waste Plastics. Credit: KIER A research team has successfully developed the Republic of Korea’s first continuous oxy-fuel...

Recycling wind turbine blade materials to make improved plastics
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Recycling wind turbine blade materials to make improved plastics

Left: wind turbine blade waste; Middle: treated and dried wind turbine blade glass-fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP); Right: injection-molded plastic containing 70% recycled GFRP....

Converting the forest industry’s carbon dioxide emissions into raw material for plastics
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Converting the forest industry’s carbon dioxide emissions into raw material for plastics

A pilot plant utilising captured carbon dioxide in VTT Bioruukki Pilot Centre, Espoo, Finland. Credit: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland VTT Technical...