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The present invention provides a method for upcycling plastic waste comprising: (i) contacting a plastic from said plastic waste with an enzyme to degrade said plastic to provide a composition comprising monomers and/or oligomers, and/or derivatives therefrom, of said plastic; and (ii) photoreformin...

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Hauptverfasser:	Florian Hollfelder, Erwin Reisner, Subhajit Bhattacharjee, Taylor Uekert, Chengzhi Guo, Erwin Lam
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F,C08G CHEMISTRY COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING METALLURGY ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP WORKING-UP
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Zusammenfassung:	The present invention provides a method for upcycling plastic waste comprising: (i) contacting a plastic from said plastic waste with an enzyme to degrade said plastic to provide a composition comprising monomers and/or oligomers, and/or derivatives therefrom, of said plastic; and (ii) photoreforming said composition to produce a mixture of products comprising hydrogen gas (optionally CO) and oxidation products of said monomers and/or oligomers, and/or derivatives therefrom. The starting waste id preferably polyethylene terephthalate (PET) or polylactic acid (PLA).