According to the technical scheme, the method comprises the following steps that 1,
activated carbon is added into water, heating and stirring are conducted, suction
filtration is conducted after stirring is conducted, then solids are collected and dried, and activated AC is obtained; 2, adding all AC into the HNO3
aqueous solution, heating and stirring, and condensing and refluxing for 3-15 hours; after the
reflux is finished, washing a product to be neutral, and
drying overnight to obtain AC-H; 3, transferring AC-H into a NaOH
aqueous solution, stirring at normal temperature, and then washing to be neutral to obtain AC-H-Na; 4,
polylactic acid, AC-H-Na and absolute
methanol are added into a reaction kettle, the temperature is increased to the specified temperature in the
nitrogen environment for a reaction, and
methyl lactate is obtained; the method adopts
nitric acid and
sodium hydroxide step-by-step modified
activated carbon as a catalyst to catalyze degradation of
polylactic acid, has high
catalytic efficiency, and the catalyst is easy to recover, and reduces
reaction energy consumption at the same time; belongs to the technical field of
polymer degradation.