{"id":152509,"date":"2022-12-11T23:24:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T05:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/scientists-create-emissions-free-method-for-recycling-plastics"},"modified":"2022-12-11T23:24:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T05:24:22","slug":"scientists-create-emissions-free-method-for-recycling-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/scientists-create-emissions-free-method-for-recycling-plastics","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create emissions-free method for recycling plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-emissions-free-method-for-recycling-plastics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Environmentalists, however, argue that the process may not be a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>University of Colorado researchers have conceived of a method of making useful materials out of some of the plastics that are inundating landfills everywhere, according to a report by the Colorado Sun.<\/p>\n<p>The end result is a series of polycyanurate networks which have been used for decades in electronic devices, automobiles, circuit boards, the space industry and more.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>AzmanJaka\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>The novel process uses ethanol to break down plastics to their smallest molecules. Those molecules are then used as starting blocks to make a new plastic product equally as useful and durable as the recycled one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmentalists, however, argue that the process may not be a good thing. University of Colorado researchers have conceived of a method of making useful materials out of some of the plastics that are inundating landfills everywhere, according to a report by the Colorado Sun. The end result is a series of polycyanurate networks which have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152509","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=152509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}