In 1950, global plastic production was about 2 million tons. It’s now about 400 million tons – an increase of nearly 20,000%. As a material, it has seemingly limitless potential. Plastic is ...

Cutting-edge South Korean waste-to-fuel technology transforms cruise plastic waste into usable energy FORT LEE, NJ, ...

For this project, the researchers found a way around both of these obstacles and developed a highly selective, energy-efficient, and catalyst-free pyrolysis method that can convert plastic into ...

Netherlands-based advanced plastics recycler Corsair Group International Holding BV recently announced a strategic partnership with Switzerland-based Kera Energy AG where Corsair will supply its ...

According to Towards Chemical and Materials, the global chemical recycling of plastics market volume was valued at 1.37 ...

India tackles its plastic waste problem with advanced chemical recycling technologies, spearheaded by PolyCycl's innovative ...

Sustane Technologies Inc., a Halifax, Nova Scotia-based company that uses advanced recycling and resource recovery from end-of-life material streams including municipal solid waste, and Germany-based ...

India can solve its enormous plastic waste problem and replace a significant amount of its naphtha imports by scaling up advanced chemical recycling technologies, with a Chandigarh-based startup ...

Specifically, the researchers are using a method known as pyrolysis, a process of using heat in the absence of oxygen to molecularly break materials down. In this case, it's used to break plastics ...