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The Naked Scientists Podcast
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How to Recycle Plastics
Superglue doesn't stick well to certain kinds of plastics, like polyethylene or polypropylene. The polymer that's formed from superglue will reverse if you heat it past a certain temperature. So the question was could we take really bulk plastics and have those polymers still break down back to starting material? And then the even harder question is, could we do that in the presence of a really contaminated dirty mixture of other plastic waste?"
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