Plastic recycling is inefficient, toxic, and hard to scale. Engineers are now exploring better material flows to build safer ...

As tons of plastic waste continue to build up in landfills every day, Yale researchers have developed a way to convert this ...

UMass Lowell offers the first and largest ABET* accredited Plastics Engineering program in the U.S. and a research-oriented graduate program. The Plastics Engineering Department is an internationally ...

Society has long struggled with petroleum-derived plastic pollution, and awareness of microplastics' detrimental effects on ...

Peabody Engineering LLC will shut down its longtime California operations and expand in Liberty, S.C., with new molding ...

Two faculty researchers from the Department of Plastics Engineering have won grants for projects that aim to reduce the amount of plastic that ends up in landfills and the environment each year. Prof.

Two faculty researchers from the Department of Plastics Engineering have won grants for projects that aim to reduce the amount of plastic that ends up in landfills and the environment each year. Prof.

Raul Lobo, Claire D. LeClaire Professor of Chemical Engineering and associate department chair in UD’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is leading the research effort for UD in ...

One possible tool for addressing these hard-to-recycle plastics is the microbial community that lives in the gut of the yellow mealworm. It turns out these microbes are uniquely suited for the work.

Notations may appear in the curriculum chart below outlining pre-requisites, co-requisites, and other curriculum requirements (see footnotes). At least nine semester credit hours of the minor must ...

Plastic Free Engineering The Engineering Center is the first building on the CU Boulder campus to become 100% plastic-free for single-use beverage containers. The College of Engineering and Applied ...

Fellow UMass Lowell plastics engineering Professor Dave Kazmer is a co-principal investigator in the project, along with professors E. Bryan Coughlin and Alan Lesser of UMass Amherst.