More than 60 million plastic water bottles go into landfills and incinerators every day, according to the Container Recycling Institute.
“We can break the polyethylene chains into small segments,” said Guoliang Liu, an associate professor of chemistry at Virginia Tech. They do this by using heat.
Polyethylene is one of the most common plastics used today. The chemical structure of it is similar to the fatty acid used as a chemical in soap. Both are made of long carbon chains.
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