{"id":736663,"date":"2022-09-29T20:40:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T00:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=736663"},"modified":"2022-09-29T20:40:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T00:40:37","slug":"process-converts-polyethylene-bags-plastics-to-polymer-building-blocks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=736663","title":{"rendered":"Process converts polyethylene bags, plastics to polymer building blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polyethylene plastics &#8212; single-use bags and general-purpose bottles &#8212; are indestructable forever plastics. That also makes them hard to recycle. Chemists have found a way to break down the polymer &#8212; a chain of about a thousand ethylene molecules &#8212; into three-carbon molecules, propylene, which are in high demand for making another plastic, polypropylene. The process could turn waste plastic into high-value feedstocks and reduce the need for fossil fuels to make propylene.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2022\/09\/220929204037.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Process converts polyethylene bags, plastics to polymer building blocks<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polyethylene plastics &#8212; single-use bags and general-purpose bottles &#8212; are indestructable forever plastics. That also makes them hard to recycle. Chemists have found a way to break down the polymer&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}