Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, ...

Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a ...

The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...

In what could be a fix to the world’s plastic problem, researchers have developed a simple new method of harnessing moisture ...

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

A new process that converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled into new PET products or upcycled into higher value materials. Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern ...

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Samsara Eco plans to tailor microscopic organisms to retrieve materials from electronic waste.

Chemists and innovative recyclers are trying to turn gloves, pipette tips, and other laboratory plastic waste into something useful ...

Clariant, Borealis and SINTEF demonstrate technology that converts plastic waste into steam cracker feedstock for polyolefins ...