Better Plastics from Carbon Emissions. Mongabay, April 10, 2008. "Efforts to slow global warming by 'scrubbing' [CO2] smokestack emissions could generate a material for the production of DVDs, beverage bottles and other products made from polycarbonate plastics, say chemists speaking at the 235th annual meeting of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Thomas E. Müller and Dr. Toshiyasu Sakakura said that polycarbonate plastics made from CO2 could be cheaper, greener, and safer that conventional plastics. 'Carbon dioxide is so readily available, especially from the smokestack of industries that burn coal and other fossil fuels,' said Müller. 'And it's a very cheap starting material. If we can replace more expensive starting materials with CO2, then you'll have an economic driving force.' Sakakura, of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Japan, said that CO2 could be used as a feedstock to change carbonates and urethanes into plastics and battery components."
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