A team of South Korean scientists have produced the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel-based chemicals. It is believed that the ...

According to a study published in the journal Science, a new method converts mixed plastic waste into fuel with 95% ...

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 ...

Mixing nanoparticles into some common plastics made them harder to break and possibly easier to process, pointing towards a ...

Professor Marcus Foston, of Washington University St. Louis, helped develop a new process using byproducts from soybean oil, ...

U.S. private equity firm Lone Star Funds is making a big move in the plastics market with its planned acquisition of ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern University chemists have introduced a new plastic upcycling process that can ...