Tag: BOTTLE consortium

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Repurposing Plastics Using Novel Engineered Processes 

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Repurposing Plastics Using Novel Engineered Processes 

September 27, 2024 |

The Bio-Optimized Technologies to keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment (BOTTLE) consortium is developing new chemical upcycling strategies for today’s plastics and redesigning tomorrow’s plastics to be recyclable-by-design. BOTTLE conducts high-impact research and development to deliver scalable technologies that enable cost-effective recycling, upcycling, and increased energy efficiency for plastics. Under the BOTTLE research […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the BOTTLE Consortium

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the BOTTLE Consortium

August 31, 2024 |

Why should DOE work on plastics circularity? For one, ~2-3% of total energy consumption in the US is used to manufacture plastics, resins, and synthetic rubber. Also, plastic production generates ~3.8% of global GHGs. Finally, plastic production uses ~6% of global oil production, representing a large opportunity for further energy and process efficiency improvements. These […]

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BOTTLE consortium team with North Face on sustainable PHAs

BOTTLE consortium team with North Face on sustainable PHAs

March 13, 2024 |

In Colorado, when worn, washed, and dried, clothing sheds—dispersing tiny fibers throughout homes, soils, and waterways that can take centuries to degrade. These fibers, often made of polyester and often too small to see, are a major—if invisible—source of microplastic pollution. By some estimates, fibers from polyester clothing account for nearly half of all microplastics […]

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