(April 8, 2015) Now
that most consumers download and stream their movies and music, more and more
CDs and DVDs will end up in landfills or be recycled. But soon these discarded
discs could take on a different role: curbing the release of greenhouse gases.
In the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, scientists report a
way to turn the discs into a material that can capture carbon dioxide, a key
greenhouse gas, and other compounds.