MUMBAI, India, May 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517011532 A) filed by Ut-Battelle, Llc, Oak Ridge, U.S.A., on Feb. 11, for 'methods of plastic recycling using highly efficient organocatalysts.'

Inventor(s) include Saito, Tomonori; and Arifuzzaman, Md.

The application for the patent was published on May 9, under issue no. 19/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method of deconstructing polymer waste into at least one useful breakdown product, wherein the polymer waste contains at least one condensation polymer, the method comprising contacting the polymer waste with a catalyst comprising an organic nitrogen-containing base and a carboxylic acid or ester ...