TY - JOUR

T1 - Chemistry and materials science for a sustainable circular polymeric economy

AU - Zuin Zeidler, Vânia Gomes

AU - Kümmerer, Klaus

N1 - © Springer Nature Limited 2022.

PY - 2022/2/1

Y1 - 2022/2/1

N2 - Chemistry plays a determining role in every stage of the plastic life cycle. We reflect on the challenges and limitations of plastics — their sheer abundance, chemodiversity and imperfect recoverability leading to loss of material — and on the need for chemical and non-chemical approaches to overcome them.

AB - Chemistry plays a determining role in every stage of the plastic life cycle. We reflect on the challenges and limitations of plastics — their sheer abundance, chemodiversity and imperfect recoverability leading to loss of material — and on the need for chemical and non-chemical approaches to overcome them.

KW - Chemistry

KW - Sustainability Science

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85123466049&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/97c4b91d-b673-3f5c-86f8-01ea0e80a5a7/

U2 - 10.1038/s41578-022-00415-2

DO - 10.1038/s41578-022-00415-2

M3 - Comments / Debate / Reports

C2 - 35096417

VL - 7

SP - 76

EP - 78

JO - Nature Reviews Materials

JF - Nature Reviews Materials

SN - 2058-8437

IS - 2

ER -