Plastic recycling is inefficient, toxic, and hard to scale. Engineers are now exploring better material flows to build safer ...

As tons of plastic waste continue to build up in landfills every day, Yale researchers have developed a way to convert this ...

A new ocean-dissolvable plastic from Japan breaks down overnight with no microplastics left behind – safe, strong, and eco-friendly innovation for the future.

Raw material shortage issues differ across manufacturing industries, and continue to remain elevated for those industries most affected by increased demand for computing power and electricity from the ...

Recycled plastic from the automotive industry could become a new kind of building material that lowers architecture's carbon footprint.

Higher raw material costs have sent North American prices for polycarbonate, ABS and nylon resins higher since April 1.

Using waste plastics as a highly abundant raw material, chemical companies could take the alkylaromatic molecules resulting from this process and transform them into the surfactants that are ...

Using waste plastics as a highly abundant raw material, chemical companies could take the alkylaromatic molecules resulting from this process and transform them into the surfactants that are ...

News Release 16-Aug-2023 Our plastic waste can be used as raw material for detergents, thanks to an improved catalytic method Peer-Reviewed Publication University of California - Santa Barbara ...

For all its uses, plastic is unfortunately one of our least sustainable materials. Now, scientists at Berkeley Lab have developed a way to engineer bacteria to produce raw materials that can be ...

European Union countries agreed on Friday to raise proposed targets for recycling and processing of raw materials required for its green transition and added aluminium to the list of essential ...