Irradiation can also complement and enhance traditional recycling methods. When combined with a chemical recycling method ...

Commentary: Plastic particles are in human lung tissue, intestinal tissue, blood, breast milk, your heart and, worse yet, in ...

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 ...

The Fraunhofer Institute is transforming millions of metric tons of household plastic waste into high-quality 3-D printed ...

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 ...

UTA chemists explain how plastic pyrolysis works to breaks down plastic waste into molecules that be used again ...

Every year, some 5.6 million metric tons of plastic packaging winds up in household waste in Germany after being used just ...

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 ...

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

which enter plastics at various stages of the manufacturing process intentionally and otherwise, means that this is not a viable solution. To address the plastics pollution crisis, the safety and ...

FDA assigns class 2 risk level to Coca-Cola recall affecting over 10,000 cans in Illinois and Wisconsin due to plastic contamination. Check your purchase.