A greener, more sustainable source of ingredients for widely used plastics
Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - 10:31
in Physics & Chemistry
A new process can convert a wide variety of vegetable and animal fats and oils—ranging from lard to waste cooking oil—into a key ingredient for making plastics that currently comes from petroleum, scientists say. Their report on the first-of-its-kind process appears in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.