Episode 28: Dr. Katrina Knauer discusses the restructuring of plastic recycling

Dr. Katrina Knauer is the Chief Technology Officer of the BOTTLE Consortium at the National Renewable Energy Laboratories near Denver, Colorado. BOTTLE (Bio-Optimized Technologies to keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment) is a U.S. Department of Energy multi-organization consortium focused on developing new chemical upcycling strategies for today's plastics and redesigning tomorrow's plastics to be recyclable-by-design.

 

Publications related to PHA discussion with Dr. Knauer:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ange.201916415

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c02110

 

All BOTTLE publications:

https://www.bottle.org/publications.html

 

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