Glycolysis of Poly(Ethylene Terephthalate) Using Biomass-Waste Derived Recyclable Heterogeneous Catalyst

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The topic of plastic depolimerization via catalytic routes is very interesting and important, in light of the nowadays issues with plastic pollution.

The paper therefore deals with an subject that deserves to be intensely studies. I think that it provides a good job in this sense, as the approach appears to be original and I think that it should be availablee to the scientific community. I have no particular comments on the work itself, as it seems to be well written and scientifically sound.

For these reasons I recommend to publish the work in its present form

Author Response

Dear sir/madam

Thank you so much for your positive review on our manuscript.

With regards,

K. Vanlaldinpuia

Reviewer 2 Report

The work has many merits and novelty enough to be published in Polymers. However, the results and discussion should be improved by adding more references, comparisons and informations over the obtained results in this work.

Author Response

Dear sir/madam,

Thank you so much for your positive review and for considering our work for publication in a reputed journal. As per your suggestion, we have made some changes in our manuscript write up by adding the following references and comparisons in the results and discussion section:

1. Line no. 139-140: The results are well-coordinated with the reported analytical observations made by Changmai et al [57].
2. Line no. 148: [56] (reference no 56 is added)
3. Line no. 169: [59] (reference no 59 is added)
4. Line no. 190: which is consistent with the earlier report by Goh et al [60].
5. Line no. 225: (see Supplementary material Figure S1-S5).

If these changes are not up to the required standard, we would be delighted to try our best to further improve our manuscript.

With regards,

K. Vanlaldinpuia