Chemical marker facilitates plastic recycling

Some years ago, a small recycling company asked the Center for Research in Advanced Materials (CIMAV) at Monterrey in the northeast of Mexico, a technology to identify PVC from PET, since the material caused them losses in their polymer recycling process. After research, CIMAV developed a chemical marker which identifies the PVC. It can be applied as a spray and in less than a minute it detects the flakes of said material.

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