{"title":"Understanding the effect of additives on plastic waste deconstruction","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s44286-025-00188-9","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Additives in plastics could hinder chemical recycling by poisoning the catalyst. Now, the robustness of chemical deconstruction technologies to organic additives used in polyolefins is assessed. The additive–catalyst interactions reveal two deactivation mechanisms, and additive-resilient catalysts and conditions for polyolefin deconstruction are identified.","PeriodicalId":501699,"journal":{"name":"Nature Chemical Engineering","volume":"2 3","pages":"167-168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nature Chemical Engineering","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44286-025-00188-9","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Additives in plastics could hinder chemical recycling by poisoning the catalyst. Now, the robustness of chemical deconstruction technologies to organic additives used in polyolefins is assessed. The additive–catalyst interactions reveal two deactivation mechanisms, and additive-resilient catalysts and conditions for polyolefin deconstruction are identified.