Plastics to pharmaceutical products (IMAGE)

University of Kansas

Plastics to pharmaceutical products

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Post-consumer plastics degraded in this study. A) From left to right: LDPE plastic grocery bag, HDPE milk jug, LDPE laboratory squeeze bottle, Pacific gyre waste collected from Santa Catalina Island, California. B) The distribution of diacid products after post-consumer polyethylene waste degradation using the optimized reaction.

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Rabot, et al.

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