It’s probably not the silver bullet that will help us get rid of plastic, but this new method could get rid of at least some of the world’s plastic pollution. A team of US and Chinese researchers created a way to upcycle plastic into high-value chemicals, known as surfactants, which are used to create cleaning products such as soap and detergent

https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/from-plastic-waste-to-cleaning-power-researchers-find-way-to-upcycle-plastics-into-soap/

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