There are hurdles still to overcome, but the new process is a big step towards a truly circular economy for plastic. Around 5 billion tonnes of plastic has gone to landfill since the 1950s ...

Their work sets standards, thanks to which researchers worldwide can now develop suitable chemical catalysts for the recycling process. Hundreds of millions of tonnes of plastic waste are generated ...

Injection molder Venture Plastics Inc. has added a Nissei 950-ton injection molding machine and Zeiss inspection system. The additions were made at the firm's headquarters site in Newton Falls ...

Watch the process of crafting high-quality electric switches, focusing on plastic manufacturing. From molding to assembly, see how precision and expertise create reliable switches for everyday use ...

A new process to recycle existing plastics indefinitely and reduce the flood of plastics into landfills is being developed by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley. From sandwich ...

Plastic is completely sterile and has been used to produce lots of medical equipment, like surgical gloves, syringes and insulin pens. It has helped improve prosthetics by making them more durable ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics that dominate the waste stream today and turn them into hydrocarbon building blocks for new plastics. The catalytic process, developed at the ...

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 ...

Chemists have developed a catalytic process that turns the largest component of today's plastic waste stream, polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that ...

They constitute a core material of modern medicine by helping to keep equipment ... recycling process that breaks apart the chains of some of the more commonly used plastics — polyethylene ...