DVDs and CD-ROMs that thwart global warming

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Chemists have developed greener ways to manufacture plastics such as material found in CDs and beverage bottles from waste CO2. Credit: Photo by the American Chemical Society
Chemists have developed greener ways to manufacture plastics, such as material found in CDs and beverage bottles, from waste CO2. Credit: Photo by the American Chemical Society

Carbon dioxide removed from smokestack emissions in order to slow global warming in the future could become a valuable raw material for the production of DVDs, beverage bottles and other products made from polycarbonate plastics, chemists are reporting.


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