USC researchers have devised a method to transform post-consumer mixed plastics into a variety of diverse and valuable secondary products with unprecedented efficiency. This two-stage method, described this week in Angewandte Chemie, has exciting potential applications for pharmaceutical development, manufacturing materials and other products.
"Polyethylene is the least recycled of the large-scale plastics—the EPA estimates less than 6% is actually recycled—and only 30% of the mass is typically...