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Posts by Kedhar R Thyagarajan

Fishing For a Better Future: Recycling Plastic Waste

01 Nov 2025 under Focus

A new study from the Department of Materials Engineering (MatE), describes a rapid method to recycle a commonly used plastic while preserving its desirable properties. In the study, published in the Chemical Engineering Journal, researchers used a novel chemical process to recycle waste sourced from fishing nets and automotive parts. Such waste is often made of […]