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

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

It's efficient and cost-effective. Scientists make key discovery that could solve serious issue with food packaging: 'They ...

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

A new catalyst may enable mixed plastic recycling The future of plastic recycling could soon become far simpler and more ...

Scientists at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering have developed a new method to create strong, safe plastic without using ...

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 ...

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

In this video, we explore the process of recycling HDPE plastic and its transformation into useful products, including wine ...

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 ...

Nearly all black plastics get sent to the landfill or get incinerated because their pigment makes them difficult to sort in plastics recycling plants. As a result, the recycling industry pays little ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) To bring this fact a bit closer to home, the U.S. produced an average of 0.75 pounds ...