A millionaire aristocrat once dubbed the 'First Lady of Lloyd's' has been ordered to face court after a five-year legal battle over plastic windows at two 19th-century lodges on her 395-acre estate.
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 ...
Researchers have cracked the code for turning plastic back into the building blocks to make new plastics. It could revolutionize recycling, which studies have shown is broken. Researchers at UC ...
Plastic is a really useful man-made material that has transformed our lives, but what happens after we throw it away is causing a big problem for our planet. Plastic waste can last for hundreds of ...
For many of us, plastic containers are part of our daily lives; we use them to store, freeze, heat and transport a variety of different foods. But some scientists are concerned that the chemicals ...
Despite the planet’s growing plastic pollution crisis ... and polypropylene — in such a way that the building blocks of those plastics can be used again. In some cases, with more than 90% ...
polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that are the building blocks of polypropylene and other types of plastics. The process uses inexpensive solid ...