Mixing nanoparticles into some common plastics made them harder to break and possibly easier to process, pointing towards a ...

According to a study published in the journal Science, a new method converts mixed plastic waste into fuel with 95% ...

"The approach, which the team describes as requiring less energy, less equipment, and fewer steps than conventional ...

Scientists found a catalyst that turns waste plastic waste into cleaner fuel much faster than before, making the process more ...

Recently, researchers from Yale University may have made a dent in that inefficiency. They successfully tested a novel way to ...

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 ...

According to Interesting Engineering, the U.S. National Science Foundation has granted a research and development group $7 ...

Plastic bottles and bags can be vaporised into chemical building blocks and turned into new plastics with all the properties of virgin material. There are hurdles still to overcome, but the new ...

The world is miserable at recycling plastics. Currently, just 10–15% of the plastic waste we generate annually is recycled — with the rest incinerated, buried in landfill or dumped as litter 1, 2. A ...

The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern University chemists have introduced a new plastic upcycling process that can ...

Gamini Mendis, assistant professor of plastics engineering technology, in the plastics lab at Penn State University's Behrend campus. A company planning to build a huge plastics recycling facility in ...