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Researchers including an Oregon State University College of Engineering faculty member have taken a key step toward greatly expanding the range of plastics that can be recycled.
Scientists, including an Oregon State University College of Engineering faculty member, have made an important step toward significantly increasing the variety of recyclable plastics.
On May 2, local time, the US Department of Energy announced on its official website that $3.16 billion will be allocated to strengthen the development of the US electric vehicle battery manufacturing industry.
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 ...