Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers. A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics ...

A new process to recycle existing plastics indefinitely and reduce the flood of plastics into landfills is being developed by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley. From sandwich bags ...

While millions of tons of plastic are produced in the US each year, only around 9 percent is recycled, and that is largely due to the difficulties around reducing the material to useful building ...

Only a small percentage of plastic bags and other polyethylene packaging is recycled because only low-value products can be made from this waste. Chemists have created a catalytic process that ...

Chemists at UC Berkeley said they have created a new laboratory process that could represent a major step forward in recycling plastic products — from single-use bags commonly found in grocery stores ...

With a new process, ENGEL makes it possible to process plastic waste as flakes in injection molding directly after grinding. Since pelletizing as a separate process step is eliminated, the innovation ...

One single-use plastic bag takes at least 450 years to degrade. Give Miranda Wang three hours and she can reduce ten of them into liquid. Wang is the first to discover a chemical process that tackles ...

With a new process, ENGEL makes it possible to process plastic waste as flakes in injection molding directly after grinding. Since a complete process step, pelletizing, is eliminated, the innovation ...

For many years scientists have been trying to reduce carbon footprints and recycle waste material into reusable substances.

Lindner shredding system in Lithuania helps process polypropylene plastic “big bag” bulk shipping sacks. Big bags, also known as FIBCs, are usually made of polypropylene and are designed for ...