A new enzymatic process cuts costs by 74 percent, slashes chemical use, and recycles PET plastic cleaner than oil-based ...

A successful collaboration involving a trio of research institutions has yielded a roadmap toward an economically viable process for using enzymes to recycle plastics.

Enzymatic recycling has gained traction in recent years as a greener alternative to traditional plastic recycling techniques, ...

Most people who separate their plastic waste for recycling assume the bulk of it will in fact be recycled. But current ...

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / April 17, 2023 / DOW Recycling plastics can save landfill space and conserve energy and water that would have been used to make new materials, among other benefits.

That process is called mechanical recycling, in which recycling is sorted to separate the plastic. Then, the plastic is chopped, melted in an extruder, and shaped in an injection molder.

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The recycling industry could adopt the process soon; in recent years, at least 10 large chemical companies have built or announced plans for facilities to produce pyrolysis oils from waste plastics.

For one, the process also looks very close to trash incineration – so there is a question of whether the extracted product is plastic or trash. Of course, this a problem that the moonshiners ...

A study out of Scotland has found that the plastic recycling process produces large quantities of microplastics, which then get washed into city water systems or the ocean.

DePoly SA, Sion, Switzerland, has announced a $13.8 million seed funding round that will help it to scale its chemical recycling technology that converts mixed postconsumer and postindustrial ...

Plastic recycling a "failed concept," study says, with only 5% recycled in U.S. last year as production rises October 24, 2022 / 6:20 AM EDT / AFP Recycling plastic isn't as effective as you think ...