floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months agoStubborn polystyrene waste finally gets innovative recycling solutioninterestingengineering.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1115arrow-down13
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minus-squareBloody Harry@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up23·5 months agoTL;DR: Pyrolysis with a yield of 60 percent styrene monomers.
minus-squareBloody Harry@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up11·5 months agoELI5: They can now make the fluffy white plastic go back to liquid very well, and they don’t even need too much work for that.
TL;DR: Pyrolysis with a yield of 60 percent styrene monomers.
So what does that mean?
ELI5: They can now make the fluffy white plastic go back to liquid very well, and they don’t even need too much work for that.
Woohoo!