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This startling mechanism for promoting depolymerization relies on an additive that many plastics already contain: a pigment called carbon black that gives plastic its black color. Through a process ...

The movement toward a recycling-based society through the essential development of recyclable materials alongside technologies for controlling recycling is reviewed. Recently, there has been progress ...

Researchers have shown that a common plastic additive called carbon black can depolymerize polystyrene and polyvinyl chloride (PVC), two of the least recycled plastics in the planet’s waste stream It ...

Thermal and Digestion Waste-to-Energy Technologies Worldwide contains comprehensive data on the worldwide market for waste to energy technologies (incineration, gasification, pyrolysis and thermal ...

Q: A report was recently published which talked about a machine that turns almost anything into oil. It sounded too good to be true. Is it fact or fantasy? — G.R., Williamsburg A: You are referring to ...

The chemical recycling of plastic scrap is gaining momentum, according to United Kingdom-based consultancy IDTechEx. In the article below, IDTechEx explores the early stage technologies for chemical ...

Specialty material solutions provider Trinseo is advancing the potential of sustainable plastics with the inauguration of its next-generation polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) depolymerization plant in ...

Lake County Board members went back and forth Tuesday over language in the Solid Waste Management Plan Update on a technology taking the recycling world by storm, “depolymerization,” a type of plastic ...

The work entitled “Orchestrating Catalytic Hotspots and Macromolecular Architectures: Molecular Engineering toward Zero-Waste Polymer Circularity” was published in Advanced Powder Materials (Available ...