[HTML][HTML] Studies on hydrolysis/alcoholysis/ammonolysis mechanisms of ethylene terephthalate dimer using DFT method

J Huang, W Xu, Y Long, Y Zhu, S Chen, W Duan… - Arabian Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Hydrolysis/alcoholysis/ammonolysis are considered as viable routes for efficient
degradation and recycling of polyethylene terephthalate waste plastic. The possible …

Recent advances in oxidative degradation of plastics

S Oh, EE Stache - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Oxidative degradation is a powerful method to degrade plastics into oligomers and small
oxidized products. While thermal energy has been conventionally employed as an external …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies to enhance the circularity of non-bottle PET packaging waste based on a detailed material characterisation

G Santomasi, R Aquilino, M Brouwer, S De Gisi… - Waste Management, 2024 - Elsevier
The compositions of Dutch lightweight packaging waste (LWP) and sorted products named
“PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) trays” have been determined on object level. Additionally …

Implications of damming and morphological diversity of microplastics in the sediment from a tropical freshwater reservoir

LG Queiroz, M Pompêo, BR de Moraes… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Microplastic pollution is ubiquitous in freshwater environments, including rivers, lakes, and
reservoirs. Plastic particles can accumulate in the sediment mainly in lentic environments …

Upcycling of plastic waste using photo-, electro-, and Photoelectrocatalytic approaches: a way toward circular economy

D Sajwan, A Sharma, M Sharma, V Krishnan - ACS Catalysis, 2024 - ACS Publications
Rapid industrialization and development have led to a tremendous increase in the use of
various types of plastic commodities in daily life. For the past several years, plastic pollution …

Acid catalyst screening for hydrolysis of post-consumer PET waste and exploration of acidolysis

P Pereira, PE Savage, CW Pester - Green Chemistry, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Efficient recycling of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastics is a global concern due to the
growing volume of plastic waste and its environmental impact. We studied PET hydrolysis …

Optimization of PET depolymerization for enhanced terephthalic acid recovery from commercial PET and post consumer PET-bottles via low-temperature alkaline …

S Teke, S Saud, RM Bhattarai, A Ali, L Nguyen… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
The increasing demand for plastic has resulted in a surge in plastic waste production.
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), commonly used in beverage bottle manufacturing, is only …

Efficient volumetric hydrolytic degradation of epoxy resin driven by Permeability-Enhanced surfactants

Z Wu, C Wang, Z Zhang, J Fan, S Wang, C Gao… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Sustainable recycling of waste epoxy resin is an increasingly urgent challenge. Hydrolysis is
an environmentally friendly method for degrading waste into reprocessable oligomers, but it …

Selective Modification of the Product Profile of Biocatalytic Hydrolyzed PET via Product‐specific Medium Engineering

T Heinks, K Hofmann, S Last, I Gamm, L Blach… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past years, enzymatic depolymerization of PET, one of the most widely used
plastics worldwide, has become very efficient leading to the end products terephthalic acid …

A comprehensive review of PETW recycling for supercapacitor applications

LU Okonye, J Ren - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
The rising measure of waste produced from polyethene terephthalate (PET) and the interest
in eco-accommodating energy storage arrangements have prompted escalated examination …