Turning our waste into solutions is vital if we want to keep the planet healthy. A wonderful example of this comes from a group of researchers that have pinpointed the conditions needed to convert CO2 to ethylene, which is used to make most common plastics today. The positive effects of this could be dramatic, both diverting greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere and reducing the need for fossil fuels to make products.
We could soon be using carbon emissions to produce plastic
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