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Gürtler
Finalists for the European Inventor Award 2021
Category: Industry
German chemists Christoph Gürtler , Walter
Leitner and team have pioneered a technique to use CO
₂
₂
. Their work has
solved a decades-old problem and is paving the way to more sustainable
manufacturing.
Plastics manufacturing consumes 6-8% of worldwide
oil production, contributing significantly to our overall carbon footprint. Polyurethanes
- a class of polymers widely used in foams and plastics to make furniture,
insulating material, sports equipment and components within electronic devices -
also need large amounts of crude oil to source the carbon required for manufacture,
rendering the process environmentally unsustainable. In the past, scientists