Chlorine-containing plastic is one of the widely used plastics in daily life. Discarded chlorine-containing plastics are extremely stable. Not only are they difficult to self-degrade, but they also release a variety of toxic chlorine-containing organic matter during the traditional high-temperature thermal degradation process, which harms the ecological environment and human health.
Recently, the team led by Huang Fuqiang, chief researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, adopted a new room-temperature dechlorination method to directly convert chlorine-containing waste plastics into a variety of high-value-added new materials, successfully achieving efficient and harmless upgrading and recycling, which can be widely used in green environmental protection, new energy storage, medical devices, wearable devices, and other fields. The relevant results were recently published in Nature Reviews: Method Introduction, a subsidiary of Nature magazine.