A groundbreaking chemical process developed at the University of California, Berkeley, could transform plastic waste into valuable hydrocarbon building blocks for creating new plastics. This ...

The US-based startup, founded by Rolex Laureate Miranda Wang, has transformed its LifeCycled™ waste into products such as ...

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 ...

MacroCycle's approach to recycling dramatically reduces the amount of energy needed to produce new material, potentially ...

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 ...

One company selling machinery to make plastic straws finds that President Donald Trump's February executive order telling ...

Incorporating fluorine into certain polyesters accelerates polymer chain formation, makes longer chains accessible, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. private equity firm Lone Star Funds is making a big move in the plastics market with its planned acquisition of ...