Instant degradation of plastics into soluble non-toxic products
OwnerOren Roseninventor
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Abstract
The present invention describes novel, cost-effective and rapid processes suitable for recycling and degradation of specially designed plastics, which are instantly degradable synthetic polymeric plastics having the characteristics and properties of conventional forms of plastics. These novel plastic products are made from a variety of compositions of polymers and their compatible nontoxic modifiers. The resulting novel instant degradable plastic products retain latent solubility properties which are triggered upon mild chemical processes of the present invention, thus enabling cost effective and facile recycling of plastic refuge.
Claims13
A process for degrading polymers of disulphide plastics, comprising adding an effective amount of a reducing agent to said polymers of degradable plastics, at mild conditions for fracturing the chemical bonds in said degradable plastics and producing a variety of monomers and degradation products.
A process for recovering a monomer from a degradable plastic material formed at least from the monomer and from a non-toxic modifier or an additive, said process comprising the steps of:
- (a) vulcanizing the plastic material in a reservoir,
- (b) washing the plastic material to remove additives from the surface of the plastic material;
- (c) exposing the washed plastic material to a reducing agent under conditions sufficient to practice the chemical bonds and thereby form one or more intermediate products;
- (d) heating in the present of a catalyst the mixture formed in step (b) to a temperature and for a time sufficient to depolymerize the plastic material and from the monomer;
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- (e) removing the monomer following a feature from the mixture.
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