A team of researchers at Princeton University’s Stache Lab, US, has uncovered a new approach to recycling PS and PVC using intense light and a plastic pigment called carbon black. The light-driven recycling method can depolymerize post-consumer waste and plastic plasticizers from PVC packaging.The study findings, recently published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, showcase a development in photothermal conversion, a process that harnesses focused intense light to break down plastic waste.
