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

“All plastic can be recycled or upcycled, but most isn’t because doing so remains unprofitable,” she explains. Plastic is the perfect building material, says Cestari. “It is cheap [to ...

A team of scientists with Professor Tobin J. Marks broke down plastic using a simple, inexpensive catalyst and air.

One of the most expensive misuses of local taxpayer dollars in the U.S. is the amount of money spent disposing of recyclable ...

Is recycling plastic just a feel-good charade we should ... But being able to break apart PET to its starting material and building it back again "would allow us to fully recircularize and we ...

From entrepreneurs to major materials manufacturers ... Advanced recycling refers to a suite of technologies that break down plastic into usable building blocks. These building blocks are as ...

A mortar made from recycled plastic and silica aerogel which improves ... The team hope this new building material could reduce heating and cooling bills while being environmentally friendly.

breaking them down into their hydrocarbon building blocks. Basically, they’re turning old plastic back into the raw materials needed to make new plastic. This has the potential to be more than a ...

In a groundbreaking development that could help address the global plastic crisis, scientists have unveiled a new method to ...

New process converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled into new PET products or upcycled into higher value materials. In experiments, method recovered 94% of monomers ...