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Podcast:
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Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions |
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Episode:
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Our sustainable future: A greener, more sustainable source of ingredients for widely used plastics
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Category:
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Science & Medicine |
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Duration:
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00:00:00 |
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Publish Date:
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1969-12-31 18:00:00 |
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Description:
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A new process can convert a wide variety of vegetable and animal fats and oils — ranging from lard to waste cooking oil — into a key ingredient for making plastics that currently comes from petroleum, scientists say. Their report on the first-of-its-kind process appears in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. |
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Total Play:
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0 |