Workers at a chemical waste disposal facility in Ankara, Turkey
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Software has identified more than 300 ways in which widely available chemical waste with no obvious use can be combined and converted into a range of drugs and fertilisers. The researchers behind the tool believe it will optimise the chemical industry and allow recycling of by-products that would otherwise need to be stored.
Bartosz Grzybowski at US software and chemistry company Allchemy and his colleagues used their software, also known as Allchemy, to look for useful products from 189 small …
