{"id":6817,"date":"2023-03-29T12:43:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T07:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6817"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:09:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T09:39:28","slug":"recyclable-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/recyclable-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Recyclable Plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Recyclable Plastic:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The new recyclable plastic is based on <strong>Poly(ethyl cyanoacrylate) or PECA<\/strong>, which is prepared from the monomer used to make Super Glue.<\/li>\n<li>It is formed through a <strong>process of polymerization<\/strong> where single, repeating monomer units are strung together in a chemical reaction to make one long chain.<\/li>\n<li>It has comparable properties to existing plastics and <strong>is stable in hot, humid environments.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The long polymer chains of the PECA plastic can be thermally &#8216;cracked&#8217; at temperatures of 210 \u00b0C and the resulting monomers distilled into a clean product to use again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is Ethyl cyanoacrylate?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ethyl cyanoacrylate is a <strong>highly reactive monomer<\/strong> that has been used nearly exclusively to make Super Glue and related fast-setting adhesives<\/li>\n<li>It is produced on the ton scale from <strong>methanol, chloroacetic acid, and sodium cyanide<\/strong>, which themselves are sourced from hydrogen, nitrogen, methane, carbon monoxide, chlorine, and sodium hydroxide.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is polymerization?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a process in which relatively small molecules called <strong>monomers combine chemically to produce<\/strong> a very large chainlike or network molecule, called a polymer.<\/li>\n<li>The monomer molecules may be all alike, or they may represent two, three, or more different compounds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Methanol?<\/h3>\n<p>Methanol (CH3OH) is water-soluble and readily biodegradable, comprising four parts hydrogen, one part oxygen, and one part carbon, and is the simplest member of a group of organic chemicals called alcohols.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-created-a-new-recyclable-plastic-not-made-from-crude-oil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Scientists Created a New Recyclable Plastic Not Made From Crude Oil<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recyclable plastic is based on Poly(ethyl cyanoacrylate) or PECA, which is prepared from the monomer used to make Super Glue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}