The depolymerisation of commodoty plastic presents an interesting opportnity to create value from plastic waste. An important aspect of these methodologies is creating efficient methods to undertake depolymerisation. To this end, dual catalysis provides an efficient and simple method to depolymerise plastics that contain heteroatoms in their backbone. By judicious choice of acid and base, activity and selectivity can be carefully controlled to allow facile access to monomers for polymerisation and upcycling of waste plastics to virgin materials or added-value products.

Dual catalytic chemical recycling and upcycling of plastics

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