Starting materials and end products (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Starting materials and end products

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Polystyrene is used in a variety of consumer products, most of which end up in landfills. Researchers found a new life for this waste product that will aid efforts to convert the nation’s airplanes from fossil fuels to sustainable aviation fuels.

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Photo by Fred Zwicky

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