Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a ...

The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...

A radical new process “vaporizes” plastic bags and bottles to help make recycled materials. American scientists say the innovative chemical procedure turns ubiquitous waste items into hydrocarbon ...

Agricultural plastic mulch films are widely used around the world to increase crop yields, conserve soil moisture, and suppress weeds. However, once these films are discarded, they can persist in the ...

A new process to recycle existing plastics indefinitely and reduce the flood of plastics into landfills is being developed by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley. From sandwich bags ...

Thermoset plastic recycling method. Thermoset plastic scrap deemed to be unrecyclable could be a new frontier in the circular economy in light of a new, continuous process patented by a Hong Kong ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — While Eastman Chemical’s molecular recycling technology may have won company leaders the ears of ...

Waste conversion. A process that converts end-of-life plastics into carbon nanotubes is the subject of a patent application from Trimtabs Ltd. of Swansea, Wales. The patent application points out ...

Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers. A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics ...

We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

This content was paid for by an advertiser and created by Crain's Custom Content. When walking into any plastics processing plant, you’ll see a device called a temperature control unit, or TCU. A TCU ...