With a new process, ENGEL makes it possible to process plastic waste as flakes in injection molding directly after grinding. Since a complete process step, pelletizing, is eliminated, the innovation ...
An estimated 280 million metric tons of plastic waste will enter the air, water, soil, and human bodies every year by 2040, ...
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 ...
'Flexible plastic' items like potato chip bags are often thrown away, but can be recycled back into food-grade films using an award-winning COtooCLEAN process. So-called flexible plastics aren’t very ...
A team of researchers just found a way to literally turn trash into treasure — by discovering a new chemical process that transforms plastic trash into liquid fuels and waxes. A new paper in Sciences ...
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: TotalEnergies (Paris:TTE) (LSE:TTE) (NYSE:TTE), Aramco and SABIC have for the first time in the Middle East and North Africa successfully ...
In phase 1, specific microorganisms, like bacteria and fungi, colonize the surface of the plastic material. These microorganisms can either be present naturally in the environment or added ...
According to a study published in Science, polymer scientists at ETH Zurich discovered an unexpected method for nearly ...
The market for wood-plastic composites (WPC) has been growing steadily in Europe since 2003, when for the first time it reached a sizeable production volume of 25,0000 metric tons (MT) per annum. By ...