Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alterra's liquefaction plant in Akron, Ohio, uses pyrolysis as its chemical recycling process to manufacture new plastics. The ...

A combined team of chemical and biomolecular engineers from the University of Delaware, and the Center for Plastics Innovation, both in the U.S., has developed a way to chemically separate fibers in ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — While Eastman Chemical’s molecular recycling technology may have won company leaders the ears of ...

Engineers have modeled a new way to recycle polystyrene that could become the first viable way of making the material reusable. The chemical method identified to tackle hard-to-recycle packaging ...

As a plastic waste plant violates pollution rules, its owner vies for second location to become a major player in so-called ...

The trio completed a semi-industrial trial of their "Rewind" PET process, demonstrating that polyester textile-to-textile ...

Aduro Clean Technologies has successfully completed initial testing of synthetic turf as a feedstock for its proprietary hydrochemolytic technology (HCT), demonstrating a potential solution for a ...

Chemical recycling of polyamides, commonly known as nylons, represents a promising strategy to recover valuable monomers and reduce environmental waste. This process involves breaking down the polymer ...

A team of chemical engineers based at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom and Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts are developing a technique for recycling polystyrene (PS) that ...

From cell phones to wind turbines and missile defense systems, modern technologies depend on critical minerals like rare ...