WISCONSIN-MADISON, November 25 (WNM/University of Wisconsin-Madison) - About 100 million tons of multilayer thermoplastics - each composed of as many as 12 layers of varying polymers - are produced globally every year. Forty percent of that total is waste from the manufacturing process itself, and because there has been no way to separate the polymers, almost all of that plastic ends up in landfills or incinerators. Now, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have pioneered a method for reclaiming ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...