Plastics are undeniably useful materials that have found their way into virtually all human activities. However, with yearly global plastic production exceeding 400 million tons, the environmental ...

Austrian recycling technology provider says its polycondensation process has received a positive opinion statement from the ...

Water plays a crucial role in boosting the conversion of polyolefins into valuable fuels when paired with ruthenium catalysts, presenting a promising approach to addressing global plastic waste. Plast ...

Just as we are reckoning with how to conserve ecosystems on Earth for future living creatures, we must think of space as an ...

Plastic waste remains an unsolved and a fast-growing environmental challenge, calling for breakthroughs in recycling technologies. Now, researchers from Korea have discovered that adding water to ...

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking method to upcycle discarded plastics into new materials with enhanced properties. This innovation not only offers a potential solution to the global plastic ...

Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world's oceans, rivers, and lakes. Plastic pollution is a global problem. Every year 19-23 million tonnes of ...

In 2019, only 17.4 per cent of e-waste was officially documented as formally collected and recycled. In 2018, the highest policy-making body of the ITU, the Plenipotentiary Conference, established a ...

Recycled plastic is an important raw material for the manufacturing of new products. But how much does a tonne of waste plastic cost on the market right now? EUWID tracks the prices on the German ...