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Environment
Marija Stojkoska

Fan Plastic! How Plastic Waste Could Be Used To Grab CO2

Graduate student Paul Savas feeds raw plastic into a crusher to prepare it for pyrolysis, or heating in an inert atmosphere. (Jeff Fitlow/Zenger).

Scientists have discovered a double environmental breakthrough – how to capture carbon dioxide by using heat-treated plastic waste.

The breakthrough came from boffins at Rice University, in the city of Houston, in the US state of Texas.

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