Chemistry traditionally focuses on converting resources into product, which resulted in the development of a plethora of synthetic methodologies creating a vast amount of molecules and materials that are currently used in society. This linear production model, however, has created a lot of waste that also enters the environment creating local, and also global, major environmental problems. This provides a new role for chemistry, one that focusses on the development of new recovery and recycling processes to advance the efficient use of resources, as well as the development of novel synthetic methods that use waste as resource.

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以废物为资源实现循环经济：循环利用碳，氮和磷

传统上，化学致力于将资源转化为产品，这导致了许多合成方法的发展，产生了目前社会上使用的大量分子和材料。但是，这种线性生产模式已经产生了很多废物，这些废物也进入环境，造成了局部乃至全球性的重大环境问题。这为化学提供了新的角色，其重点是开发新的回收和再循环工艺以促进资源的有效利用，以及开发使用废物作为资源的新型合成方法。