{"id":947003,"date":"2026-07-20T07:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/947003\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T07:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:34:15","slug":"china-can-turn-plastic-waste-to-jet-fuel-at-a-low-cost-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/947003\/","title":{"rendered":"China can turn plastic waste to jet fuel at a low cost: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Global plastic production exceeds 460 million tonnes annually, and the material\u2019s resistance to degradation is fuelling growing concern about its environmental impact.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional disposal routes \u2013 <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/waste-management?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">incineration and landfilling<\/a> \u2013 are not only wasteful but also highly polluting. However, a new chemical technique that converts discarded plastics into aviation fuel is now emerging as a promising and potentially low-cost solution.Chinese researchers have proposed a technology that can <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/recycling-and-waste-reduction?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">convert waste plastics<\/a> into aviation fuel at a low cost.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The research, conducted by a joint team from the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Fudan University, centres on the hydrogenolysis of polyolefins. The reaction operates under relatively mild conditions and offers tunable product selectivity, allowing researchers to steer the conversion towards desired hydrocarbon ranges.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Polyolefins \u2013 primarily polythene and polypropylene \u2013 account for over 60 per cent of plastic waste, yet they are notoriously inert and difficult to break down.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3351749\/chinese-team-pioneers-path-turn-carbon-dioxide-jet-fuel-prices-soar?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aviation fuel<\/a>, meanwhile, relies heavily on C8-C16 hydrocarbons, so the process is akin to precisely cutting a fishing net into manageable pieces \u2013 avoiding shredding it into useless fragments while ensuring the pieces are not too long to be of any practical use.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At the heart of this chemistry lie metal catalysts, which provide the active sites for selectively cleaving and rearranging carbon\u2011carbon bonds. However, a fundamental challenge has long plagued this route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Global plastic production exceeds 460 million tonnes annually, and the material\u2019s resistance to degradation is fuelling growing concern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":947004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[251114,9191,108595,45521,24421,109238,381261,109895,3339,381260,381258,381259,158,67,132,68,381262],"class_list":["post-947003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-aviation-fuel","tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","tag-chinese-researchers","tag-fudan-university","tag-greenhouse-gas-emissions","tag-hydrogenolysis","tag-metal-catalysts","tag-nickel","tag-plastic-waste","tag-polyolefins","tag-polythene","tag-shanghai-advanced-research-institute","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-waste-plastics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116951152699073631","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}