A radical new process “vaporizes” plastic bags and bottles to help make recycled materials. American scientists say the innovative chemical procedure turns ubiquitous waste items into hydrocarbon ...

Researchers at the University of St Andrews have identified a catalytic route to convert household plastic waste into a ...

A groundbreaking discovery led by the University of St. Andrews has found a way to turn ordinary household plastic waste into the building block for anti-cancer drugs. Household PET (polyethylene ...

"Many current technologies lack strong economic feasibility." Scientists make breakthrough discovery that could transform ...

In relation to the plastics, chemical recycling breaks down PET’s long polymer chains into individual units called monomers ...

Imagine taking heaps and heaps of earth-polluting, unusable plastic waste and actually transforming it into something constructive? Plastic pollution is a proliferating and increasingly overwhelming ...

"The bottom line drives a lot of innovation." Startup develops game-changing solution for major problem with common waste: 'I thought it was too good to be true' first appeared on The Cool Down.

New catalytic recycling turns everyday PET plastics into valuable pharmaceutical intermediates for cancer medications and ...

image: Inspired by the warming Earth’s greenhouse effect, we design a catalyst architecture that enables waves selectively to pass through. This greenhouse mimic is composed of a carbonized MOF core ...

Francis Thuti, Environmentalist and researcher is recycling plastic waste into cabro building blocks at Nanyuki town dumpsite. [Lydiah Nyawira, Standard] Persevering the scorching sun, he rummages ...

Scientists say a new chemical recycling method could convert everyday plastic waste into key ingredients used in cancer ...

A new kind of building material is taking shape in a lab at the University of Michigan. The modular, flat black panels panel is the kind of wall-like material that’s used to clad the exterior of ...