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by tigerBL00D 457 days ago
It says "Leveraging the trace amounts of moisture in air, the broken-down PET is converted into monomers—the crucial building blocks for plastics. From there, the researchers envision the monomers could be recycled into new PET products or other, more valuable materials." I don't know if there's some enormous challenge hiding behind the word "envision", but I'm assuming it's a closed system until something useful comes out of the other end. The method just can't be a lot more expensive than to make the same thing/material from scratch or it's never going to gain traction.
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Well let's truly hope that its not that much expensive