How To Solve the Mounting Problem of Plastic Waste? Focus on Its Chemical Roots
DOE Funding Pairs NREL with Academic, Nonprofit, and Industry Scientists To Transform
How We Create and Recycle Plastic
Feb. 3, 2021
NREL researcher Chen Wang works on a UV-light setup to study light-driven oxidation
reactions to degrade commodity plastics, such as polystyrene and polyethylene.
Photo by Dennis Schroeder, NREL
Plastic pollution is a recognized global challenge. According to
Our World in Data, since 1950, only 9% of the roughly 5.8 billion tons of plastic waste has been recycled.
Experts estimate that there will be more plastic than fish by mass in the ocean by