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CE Podcast: Plastics Recycling and PHA

| By Scott Jenkins

On this episode of the Chemical Engineering podcast, our guests are polymer chemist Scott Trenor, a principal scientist at Milliken Chemical Company, and Anindya Mukherjee, the co-founder of GO!PHA, an organization promoting the development of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) as an alternative to petroleum-derived plastics. In the interview, the two discuss the plastic waste problem, the prospects and challenges for plastics recycling, and the properties of PHA in plastics applications.  Click on the link below to listen to the episode.