How can we recycle and create more sustainable plastics?

For more information: https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2020-10-28-slac-researchers-join-effort-make-plastic-more-recyclable

Christopher J. Tassone, PhD provides an overview of the research that SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory performed as part of the Bio-Optimized Technologies to keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment (BOTTLETM) consortium. SSRL@SLAC’s role within the consortium is to develop the characterization tools which enable the consortium members to understand how their approaches to deconstructing plastics back to their building blocks are working so that they can design even better processes for chemical and biological recycling, as well as understanding how newly designed polymers which are designed with recyclability and environmental impacts in mind can be used to create products we use today. BOTTLE is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Bioenergy Technologies Office and Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office. BOTTLE is led by experts from multiple partner national laboratories and universities with demonstrated experience in process development and integration, chemical catalysis, biocatalysis, material science, separations, modeling, economic analysis, and sustainability assessment. Addressing big challenges requires big teams to provide this diverse expertise and the consortium team includes members from Argonne National Laboratory, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Colorado State University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

The BOTTLE consortium: https://www.bottle.org
SSRL, the synchrotron x-ray radiation lightsource at SLAC: https://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu

Christopher J. Tassone, PhD is Materials Science Division Director at SSRL (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

SSRL produces extremely bright X-ray light for probing our world at the atomic and molecular level. More than 1,600 scientists from all over the world use it each year for research that spurs advances in medicine, energy production, environmental cleanup, nanotechnology and new materials.

Video produced by Olivier Bonin / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Earth design by Ayah Elgendy / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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