A radical new process "vaporizes" plastic bags and bottles to help make recycled materials. The innovative chemical procedure ...

These building blocks are as good as the building blocks ... opportunities for packaging manufacturers to access more recycled plastic for a wider variety of end-use applications.

In what could be a fix to the world’s plastic problem ... monomers—the essential building blocks of plastics. Researchers ...

New process converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled into new PET products or upcycled into higher value materials. In experiments, method recovered 94% of monomers ...

See a few examples of packaging innovations designed to enhance recycling from Mondelēz International, Aptar Beauty, and Asda ...

The world produces around 400 million tonnes of plastic each year of which only 9% is recycled. Plastic which does not decompose is a significant driver of climate change and has been found in the ...

Another issue is many mechanically recycled products are ... chemical recycling — meaning the plastic is stripped down to its fundamental building blocks, or monomers, and then refashioned ...

Northwestern University chemists have developed a non-toxic, resource-efficient, solvent-free method for breaking down ...

the broken-down PET is converted into monomers—the crucial building blocks for plastics. From there, the researchers envision the monomers could be recycled into new PET products or other ...

A new process that converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled into new PET products or upcycled into higher value materials. Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern ...