Maxime Hourtoule

Sep 10, 2024 | pericles.pericles-prod.literatumonline.com | Maxime Hourtoule |Sven Trienes |Lutz Ackermann

Plastics are omnipresent in our everyday life, and accumulation of post-consumer plastic waste in our environment represents a major societal challenge. Hence, methods for plastic waste recycling are in high demand for a future circular economy. Specifically, the degradation of post-consumer polymers towards value-added small molecules constitutes a sustainable strategy for a carbon circular economy.

Sep 10, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Maxime Hourtoule |Sven Trienes |Lutz Ackermann

Introduction Due to their low cost, water resistance, durability, and ease of production, plastics play a key role in a large array of our modern society.1 However, less than 10 % of the world-wide produced plastics are currently recycled, while less than 1 % is recycled more than once.1b, 2 As a direct consequence of this low recycling rate, there is an accumulation of plastic waste in landfills and aquatic environments threatening wildlife, and environment.