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Mechanical recycling degrades polymer quality and can’t handle colored, multi-layer, or fibrous PET; chemical routes consume high energy and often yield intermediate monomers that require more processing.—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025 In most gel products, the main component is acrylates; these are monomers or oligomers, which are small molecules or chains of molecules and can come in a thick liquid form.—Holly Burns, Time, 30 Sep. 2025 This next-gen technology breaks plastics down to their molecular building blocks (monomers), which can be reassembled into virgin-quality resin—without relying on fossil fuels.—Alexander Kwapis, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025 The substance incorporates an epoxy–acrylate monomer combined with a photosensitizer compound.—Ben Coxworth
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