Yet the oil industry plans to increase plastic production 40 percent over the next decade ... These plastic-making factories include ethane “cracker” and methanol plants, both which process natural ...

In 1950, global plastic production was about 2 million tons. It's now about 400 million tons—an increase of nearly 20,000%.

and their efforts are turning the traditional plastics manufacturing and recycling process on its head. As chemists, material scientists and engineers, they’re now applying their ingenuity to ...

Scientists developed a new method for breaking down one of the most common plastics to a byproduct that can be upcycled into ...

Versalis, the chemical division of Italian energy group Eni , on Monday opened a plant in Porto Marghera for the production ...

One likely area of contention at next week’s conference will be whether to focus climate efforts on making certain steps in the plastics production process more environmentally friendly or on ...

E. coli bacteria could be used to create biodegradable plastics, reports a paper published in Nature Chemical Biology. The ...

So I wanted to make my own tools so I could use recycled plastic locally.” Typical plastic production, like injection molding, uses very large and expensive machines — so expensive that most ...

This laboratory introduces students to the plastics manufacturing processes of twin screw extrusion, film extrusion, tube extrusion, and injection molding process monitoring. Experiments are designed ...

For manufacturing, that core set of inputs includes plastics. Plastics support over a quarter of all U.S. manufacturing and are critical to every manufacturing sector. In our defense sector ...

The process doesn't allow complete control over ... So, it's not quite ready to take over global plastic production. But the work does do a great job of highlighting the potential of bio-based ...

wrapping a two-year process to create a legally binding document to stop plastic pollution. Despite some measures of progress, familiar points of contention, such as the push to cap plastics ...