Plastic waste surrounds daily life, from food containers and grocery bags to shampoo bottles and medical supplies. Much of it ends up buried or drifting into ecosystems because recycling it is slow, ...

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

Microplastics have been linked to a range of troubling human health conditions. The tiny pollutants persist in the environment and can travel up the food chain, accumulating in the bodies of animals ...

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 ...

ExxonMobil's third advanced recycling unit at Baytown is now operational, increasing capacity to process up to ~250 million pounds of plastic waste annually. We’re on track to reach approximately 450 ...

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Analysis by IDTechEx says technological refinement and commercial scaling are among the challenges still being confronted in the chemical recycling subsector. Polypropylene is among the resin types ...