Chemistry and materials science for a sustainable circular polymeric economy.
Vânia Gomes ZuinKlaus KümmererPublished in: Nature reviews. Materials (2022)
Chemistry plays a determining role in every stage of the plastic life cycle. We reflect on the challenges and limitations of plastics - their sheer abundance, chemodiversity and imperfect recoverability leading to loss of material - and on the need for chemical and non-chemical approaches to overcome them.