Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers. Credit: Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley A new catalytic process ...

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 ...

The scientists behind the project explained that the process works “equally well” with the two dominant types of consumer plastic waste: polyethylene, the component of most single-use plastic ...

Experiments are designed so that the student will understand the theory of polymer conversion techniques by the interaction between process variables and material characteristics. Pre-Req: PLAS 2150 ...

This laboratory introduces students to the plastics manufacturing processes of single screw extrusion, injection molding, blow molding, sheet thermoforming and rotational molding. Experiments are ...

A radical new process "vaporizes" plastic bags and bottles to help make recycled materials. The innovative chemical procedure turns the ubiquitous waste items into hydrocarbon "building blocks" for ...

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 ...

A radical new process "vaporizes" plastic bags and bottles to help make recycled materials. The innovative chemical procedure turns the ubiquitous waste items into hydrocarbon "building blocks ...

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 ...

That's why less than 10% gets recycled. But Cyclyx says it figured out a way to sort and process any kind of plastic into pellets that can then be recycled. Tebbets admits the company has never ...