Polypropylene and polyethylene are two durable and affordable plastics commonly used as packaging materials, snack wrappers, ...

A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most "recyclable" objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected in huge volumes. Yet even for this item, the reality of recycling is messy: ...

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 ...

Plastic to possibilities ...

Polyethylene, or PE, is one of the most commonly produced plastics in the world. It is used primarily for making grocery bags, trash bags and packaging films and wraps as well as food containers, ...

Dr. Byungwook Hwang’s research team from the CCS Research Department at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has successfully developed a process that applies the circulating fluidized bed ...

Note: Eastman Chemical Company’s first “molecular recycling” facility is now fully operational in Kingsport. It uses a process called methanolysis to reduce hard-to-recycle waste plastic to its ...

A new solar-driven method transforms plastic waste and microplastics into acetic acid, turning pollution into a valuable chemical.

Humans generate a lot of plastic waste – more than 400 million metric tons a year. Plastic products have been propelling our quality of life forward for over a century, from keeping food fresh longer ...

A$11.2m in joint federal and NSW funding will expand facilities to process hard-to-recycle plastics, including soft plastics ...