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Sunlight-powered process turns plastic waste into acetic acid without emissions

1 points| westurner | 5 days ago |phys.org

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westurner|5 days ago

ScholarlyArticle: "Bio‐Inspired Cascade Photocatalysis on Fe Single‐Atom Carbon Nitride Upcycles Plastic Wastes for Effective Acetic Acid Production" (2026) https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.20...

westurner|5 days ago

Lignin-Vitrimer can be recycled with hot acetic acid.

If hot acetic acid can be made from plastic waste, I think that almost solves the additional recycling stream problem for Lignin-Vitrimer.

There are also processes for hydrogen from plastic and plastic to plastic with just hydrogen

gus_massa|5 days ago

In case the article is not clear enough, the idea is to use the acetic acid as a insume of other chemical process, not to produce food (vinegar).