Plastic has become a ubiquitous part of modern life—in water bottles, shopping bags and car dashboards. But once discarded, ...

Plastic bottles and bags can be vaporised into chemical building blocks and turned into new plastics with all the properties of virgin material. There are hurdles still to overcome, but the new ...

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In an innovative gas fermentation process, reducing the concentration of carbon dioxide was found to significantly improve ...

A joint research team has developed a technology to produce high-value-added plastic raw materials called dicarboxylic acids (α,ω-diacids) by recycling mixed waste plastics. The work is published in ...

“The world’s commitment to ending plastic pollution is clear and undeniable,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), when the fifth negotiation session for an ...

A group of 30 French and European experts worked on the collective scientific assessment[1], drawing on a corpus of over 4,500 international scientific publications as well as statistics and ...

Advanced thermal imaging and temperature measurement technologies support quality assurance in modern plastic molding ...