{"id":147611,"date":"2022-10-05T17:24:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T22:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/a-new-process-can-make-plastics-more-environmentally-friendly"},"modified":"2022-10-05T17:24:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T22:24:03","slug":"a-new-process-can-make-plastics-more-environmentally-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/a-new-process-can-make-plastics-more-environmentally-friendly","title":{"rendered":"A new process can make plastics more environmentally friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-process-can-make-plastics-more-environmentally-friendly3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An upcycling method changes the most widely produced plastic into the second most widely produced plastic, making it more sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>A new technique has been developed by scientists that transforms polyethylene (PE), the most widely produced plastic, into polypropylene (PP), the second most produced plastic.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>Upcycling plastic efficiently to eliminate waste<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The purpose of this process is to reduce greenhouse emissions. \u201cThe world needs more and better options for extracting the energy and molecular value from its waste plastics,\u201d said Susannah Scott, co-lead author of the study and Distinguished Professor and Mellichamp Chair of Sustainable Catalytic Processing at UC Santa Barbara. This new study was published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/jacs.2c07781\" title=\"Journal of the American Chemical Society\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Journal of the American Chemical Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An upcycling method changes the most widely produced plastic into the second most widely produced plastic, making it more sustainable. A new technique has been developed by scientists that transforms polyethylene (PE), the most widely produced plastic, into polypropylene (PP), the second most produced plastic. Upcycling plastic efficiently to eliminate waste The purpose of this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}