Bob Powell had spent more than a decade in the energy industry when he turned his attention to the problem of plastic waste. “I’m very passionate about the environment,” he says. To him, the ...
One possible solution that’s emerged in recent years is advanced recycling. Advanced recycling, also called chemical ...
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "The Global Market for Advanced Plastics Recycling 2023-2040" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. Advanced recycling technologies that utilize heat ...
Achieving a sustainable society requires the development of advanced degradable plastics, or polymers, which are molecules composed of long chains of repeating units. The goal of a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic is processed at Exxon Mobil's chemical recycling plant in Baytown, Texas, in October 2023. (Sergio Flores / AFP via Getty ...
This story is a partnership between Inside Climate News and CBS News. HOUSTON—When the news crew showed up outside a waste-handling business that’s failed three fire safety inspections and has yet to ...
This article originally appeared on ProPublica. Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it was the first ...
Researchers overcame the tradeoff between plastic toughness and degradability by developing plastics with movable crosslinks. The crosslinks both increased toughness by over eight times and increased ...
When California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed suit against Exxon Mobil and accused the oil giant of misleading the public about the effectiveness of plastic recycling, many of the allegations ...
When California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed suit against Exxon Mobil and accused the oil giant of misleading the public about the effectiveness of plastic recycling, many of the allegations surrounded ...
Conceptual figure showing the enzymatically sustainable resources of poly(ε-caprolactone)-poly(urethane) (PCL-PU) with movable cross-links catalyzed by lipase as the enzyme. Osaka, Japan—Achieving a ...