Researchers turn recovered car battery acid and plastic waste into clean hydrogen (IMAGE)

University of Cambridge

Researchers turn recovered car battery acid and plastic waste into clean hydrogen

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Researchers have developed a solar-powered reactor to break down hard-to-recycle forms of plastic waste – such as drinks bottles, nylon textiles and polyurethane foams – using acid recovered from old car batteries, and converting it into clean hydrogen fuel and valuable industrial chemicals.

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Beverly Low

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