Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic ends up in landfills every year, and even the small percentage of plastic that gets recycled can’t last forever. But our group of materials ...
A new startup is revolutionizing how textile and plastic waste are recycled, cutting costs and improving efficiency.
A pair of robust and inexpensive catalysts can help recycle mixtures of polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP), two of the most common and intractable types of plastic waste (Science 2024, DOI: ...
Discover how the Thermo Scientific TM Process TM 11 and Process TM 16 extruders can aid in mechanical polymer recycling by helping define the optimal workflow and recycling parameters. Why is it ...
The escalating environmental and economic challenges posed by plastic waste have spurred a diversity of research into advanced recycling technologies. This field encompasses a range of approaches—from ...
Is it possible to recover plastic recyclates from previously unused waste streams in order to produce high-quality fibers and ...
Analysis by IDTechEx says technological refinement and commercial scaling are among the challenges still being confronted in the chemical recycling subsector. Polypropylene is among the resin types ...
This new chlorine-transfer method shows how PVC waste can fuel the creation of biodegradable plastics instead of clogging landfills. Study: Electrochemical Chlorine Shuttle from PVC Waste to Vinyl ...
ORNL's invention may change plastic's environmental fate by rearranging polymeric building blocks to customize the properties of plastics. Molecular subunits link to produce polymer chains that can ...
A new study describes a chemical reaction that can convert Styrofoam into a high-value conducting polymer known as PEDOT:PSS. Researchers also noted that the upgraded plastic waste can be successfully ...
Aduro Clean Technologies has successfully completed initial testing of synthetic turf as a feedstock for its proprietary hydrochemolytic technology (HCT), demonstrating a potential solution for a ...