🍃 What if plastic could fight climate change instead of causing it?

It sounds impossible, but a team of chemists at the University of Copenhagen has found a way to turn ordinary plastic bottles into powerful carbon capturing materials.

They’ve developed a new material called BAETA, created by upcycling old PET bottles and textiles, the same kind that usually end up clogging oceans and landfills.

Here’s where it gets exciting:

BAETA doesn’t just stop pollution. 

It actually captures CO₂ from the atmosphere, turning one of our biggest environmental problems into part of the solution.

The process is simple, efficient, and scalable.

• It works at normal temperatures.

• It reuses low quality plastics that can’t be recycled.

• And it can be placed at factory chimneys to trap carbon before it escapes into the air.

It’s a breakthrough that could change how we see waste not as an endpoint, but as a starting point for innovation.

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Source: Scientists made plastic that eats carbon

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