Abstract
In their Editorial to the Special Issue on The Chemistry of Waste Plastics Upcycling, the Guest Editors Adam Guss, George Huber, Carol Lin, Xianzhi Meng, Hugh O'Neill, Arthur Ragauskas, Jia Wang, Yanqin Wang, and Frederik Wurm highlight some of the increasingly urgent efforts being made by chemists to address challenges related to the fate of plastics at the end of, their useful lives and the valorization of plastic waste.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3982-3984 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | ChemSusChem |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 19 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 5 2021 |
Funding
. Arthur J. Ragauskas held the first Fulbright Chair in Alternative Energy and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Academy of Wood Science and TAPPI. In 2014, he assumed a Governor's Chair for Biorefining based in University of Tennessee's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, with a complementary appointment in the UT Institute of Agriculture's Department of Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries and serves in the US Energy and Environmental Sciences Directorate, Biosciences Division, at ORNL. His research program is directed at understanding and exploiting innovative sustainable bioresources to develop new and improved routes to biofuels, biopower, and bio‐based materials and chemicals. His research program has been sponsored by the NSF, USDA, DOE, GA Traditional Industry Program, a consortium of industry partners, and several fellowship programs
Keywords
- circular economy
- heterogeneous catalysis
- plastics
- recycling
- waste valorization
