Water replaces toxins: Green production of plastics

© Miriam Unterlass / TU Wien 1/4 images 1L steel reactor in the laboratory of Miriam Unterlass Free to download and use. Free to download and use. Although organic plastics are not harmful to the environment themselves, toxic substances are often used during their synthesis. TU Wien shows - there is another way. Many materials that we use every day are not sustainable. Some are harmful to plants or animals, others contain rare elements that will not always be as readily available as they are today. A great hope for the future is to achieve different material properties by using novel organic molecules.