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Role of Catalysis in Enhancing the Circular Economy for Plastic Waste – Catalysis
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itemprop="author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope><a class="url fn n" href="https://catalysis.blog/archive/author/catalysis/" title="View all posts by catalysis" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">catalysis</span></a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content" itemprop="text"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The growing concern related to plastic waste has led to a search for sustainable solutions among these, the concept of a circular economy is gaining considerable momentum. In a circular economy, the pathway shifts from the traditional linear model of ‘take, make, dispose’ to one where materials are kept in use for as long as possible, extracting maximum value, and then recovering and regenerating products at the end of their lives. At the heart of this vision, many would regard it as one of the most serious environmental issues of our time, namely, the effective recycling of plastic waste. Catalysis could contribute significantly to the circular economy by providing effective, economical, and environmentally clean recycling processes by enhancing the chemical reactions. This paper discusses how catalytic processes are changing the way plastic waste is being recycled into high-quality recyclable products, especially polyethylene terephthalate (PET).</span></p> <h3><b>Challenge of Plastic Waste</b></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Plastics have become a part of modern life because they are durable, lightweight, and versatile. However, these very properties have now led to the problem of plastic waste, which creates huge environmental hazards. These properties make mechanical recycling, among other traditional recycling processes, degrade mostly in the quality of the plastics, and hence they are rather limited for recycling, with a resultant continuous demand for virgin plastic materials. Moreover, plastics, and multilayer packaging in particular, are pretty hard to recycle with traditional processes. In this view, huge amounts of plastic waste are incinerated or landfilled. This fact points out a requirement for more advanced recycling technologies that will be able to process a diversity of plastic waste streams without losing the quality of the recycled products.</span></p> <h3><b>Catalysis in Plastic Recycling</b></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the most potential solutions to the drawbacks of traditional recycling processes is catalysis. These catalytic processes enable the chemical recycling of plastics through the breakdown into monomeric building blocks that, after purification, could be re-polymerized into new plastics displaying properties identical to virgin material. 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However, owing to its high usage, this has brought about various problems in managing the waste. Chemical recycling of PET mediated by some catalytic processes is a potential solution to these challenges.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the most popular chemical recycling methods of PET in glycolysis is the depolymerization of PET into its monomer with the help of ethylene glycol. This process has been proven to be greatly improved in the presence of such catalysts as zinc acetate and other metal-based catalysts to achieve a better BHET (</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">bis(2-hydroxyethyl)terephthalate)</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> yield. Another such promising method is the use of ionic liquids as catalysts that may further enhance efficiency and environmental friendliness in glycolysis processes.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A recently developed approach is in the depolymerization of PET by using supercritical methanol. Under high-temperature and high-pressure conditions in the presence of a catalyst, PET is broken down to its original monomers, dimethyl terephthalate and ethylene glycol. But this process is enhanced through the use of a carbon-supported molybdenum-dioxo complex as the catalyst because it allows the complete depolymerization of PET even in the presence of other plastics such as polypropylene, PP.</span></p> <h3><b>Better Ways of Multilayer Plastic Recycling</b></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Multilayer plastic packaging consists of different polymer layers that make it difficult to recycle, keeping the different layers separate. Recent advances in catalysis, however, have led to processes such as solvent-targeted recovery and precipitation capable of efficient sorting and multilayer plastic recycling. This process involves a series of solvent washes guided by thermodynamic calculations of polymer solubility, effectively deconstructing the multilayer films to their constituent polymers. The recovered polymers can be reprocessed further or remolded into other meaningful materials to reduce the amount of plastic waste ending up in landfills.</span></p> <h3><b>The Role of Photocatalysis in Plastic Waste Conversion</b></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Photocatalysis is another emerging tech dealing with plastic waste recycling. This technique is based on the principle of light energy, which activates the catalyst to drive the desired chemical reaction in order to break down plastic waste into various valuable products. Recent studies have demonstrated that a photocatalyst, carbon nitride or nickel phosphide, can effectively convert non-recyclable plastic waste, meaning microplastics, into clean hydrogen fuel and useful organic chemicals. This approach has huge potential to solve the growing problem of plastic pollution while contributing to the production of renewable energy since the process is low-energy and environmentally friendly.</span></p> <h3><b>Enhancing the Circular Economy through Catalysis</b></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All in all, the integration of catalytic processes into plastic recycling will surely raise the efficiency and quality level of the recycling process considerably while also definitely helping to implement the concept of a circular economy. In this respect, catalysis recovers high-quality materials from plastic waste, thus reducing virgin plastic use and saving resources while minimizing environmental impacts.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Moreover, the flexibility of catalytic processes enables the recycling of an enormous diversity of plastics, including those long considered non-recyclable. 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The development of low-cost catalysts that would easily scale up for industrial applications is key among them. In addition, the recovery and reutilization of catalysts in processes of chemical recycling should be optimized in order to further enhance the sustainability of these technologies.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In view of these challenges, research in this area goes hand in hand with developing more efficient catalysts, improving energy efficiency in catalytic processes, and discovering new catalytic materials and methods. With these developments, catalysis will contribute much towards driving the transition to a plastic circular economy.</span></p> <h3><b>Conclusion</b></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Catalysis is one of the primary technologies at the forefront of efforts to enhance plastic waste as a circular economy. Catalysis makes efficient chemical recycling of plastics possible. This not only helps in ensuring no loss of quality for the utilized material but also reduces the impact of plastic waste on the environment and spares valuable resources. The role of catalysis in plastics recycling will only grow increasingly critical as time progresses and further research and innovation build a much more sustainable, green future where materials are responsibly utilized with less generation of waste.</span></p> <p>[keywords_start]Catalysis, Circular Economy, Plastic Waste, PET Recycling, Chemical Recycling, Photocatalysis, Multilayer Plastics, Sustainable Development<br /> keywords_end]</p> <h3><b>References</b></h3> <ol> <li>Wu, W.J., Sun, X.L., Chen, Q. and Qian, Q., 2022. <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/14/3/510">Recycled poly (ethylene terephthalate) from waste textiles with improved thermal and rheological properties by chain extension</a>. <i>Polymers</i>, <i>14</i>(3), p.510.</li> <li>Walker, T.W., Frelka, N., Shen, Z., Chew, A.K., Banick, J., Grey, S., Kim, M.S., Dumesic, J.A., Van Lehn, R.C. and Huber, G.W., 2020. <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.aba7599">Recycling of multilayer plastic packaging materials by solvent-targeted recovery and precipitation.</a> <i>Science advances</i>, <i>6</i>(47), p.eaba7599.</li> <li>Zhang, F., Zeng, M., Yappert, R.D., Sun, J., Lee, Y.H., LaPointe, A.M., Peters, B., Abu-Omar, M.M. and Scott, S.L., 2020. <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abc5441">Polyethylene upcycling to long-chain alkylaromatics by tandem hydrogenolysis/aromatization. </a><i>Science</i>, <i>370</i>(6515), pp.437-441.</li> <li>Kratish, Y., Li, J., Liu, S., Gao, Y. and Marks, T.J., 2020. <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ange.202007423">Polyethylene Terephthalate Deconstruction Catalyzed by a Carbon‐Supported Single‐Site Molybdenum‐Dioxo Complex</a>. <i>Angewandte Chemie</i>, <i>132</i>(45), pp.20029-20033.</li> <li>Uekert, T., Kasap, H. and Reisner, E., 2019. <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jacs.9b06872">Photoreforming of nonrecyclable plastic waste over a carbon nitride/nickel phosphide catalyst.</a> <i>Journal of the American Chemical Society</i>, <i>141</i>(38), pp.15201-15210.</li> <li>Westhues, S., Idel, J. and Klankermayer, J., 2018. <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.aat9669">Molecular catalyst systems as key enablers for tailored polyesters and polycarbonate recycling concepts.</a> <i>Science advances</i>, <i>4</i>(8), p.eaat9669.</li> <li>Genta, M., Iwaya, T., Sasaki, M., Goto, M. and Hirose, T., 2005. <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie0488187">Depolymerization mechanism of poly (ethylene terephthalate) in supercritical methanol. </a><i>Industrial & engineering chemistry research</i>, <i>44</i>(11), pp.3894-3900.</li> </ol> <p></div></div> <div style="background: #f7f7f7;border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.07);"> <div style="padding: 30px;"><div class="Adblock-main"> <div class="Adblock-head"> <h2>Top Experts on “<b style="color:#000;font-size:22px;">plastic waste</b>“</h2> </div> </div><div class="author-main"><div id="results_author"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="register-button" href="https://catalysis.blog/expert-search" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Find experts on any field</a></div></div><div class="inside-article" style="background: none;border: none;box-shadow: none;margin-top: -70px;"> <style> .author-block { padding: 15px; 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