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Nitrile rubber gloves upcycled into carbon capture materials

Two teams are exploring scaling up processes that could tackle the 800,000 tonnes of glove waste created every year A simple hydrogenation reaction can convert challenging-to-recycle rubber wastes into valuable upcycled products. Working independently, two teams from Denmark and the UK exploited the nitrogen functionality in nitrile-butadiene rubber (NBR) to modif... [6195 chars]

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