Polypropylene and polyethylene are two durable and affordable plastics commonly used as packaging materials, snack wrappers, ...

The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...

A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most "recyclable" objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected ...

Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a ...

While polypropylene (PP) is the most versatile and easiest to recycle polymer and one of the most widely used materials in packaging for consumer goods, this packaging is not widely recycled.

The Recycling Partnership’s (TRP’s) Polypropylene Recycling Coalition has released its inaugural annual report, showcasing what it calls “measurable improvement” in the circularity of polypropylene ...

Chemists and innovative recyclers are trying to turn gloves, pipette tips, and other laboratory plastic waste into something useful ...

What if the solution to one of humanity’s most pressing environmental crises has been hiding in plain sight all along? With over 400 million tons of plastic produced annually and only a fraction of it ...

Clariant, Borealis and SINTEF demonstrate technology that converts plastic waste into steam cracker feedstock for polyolefins ...

Changes to household collections are part of wider moves to increase the recycling rates, which have stalled in recent years.

Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, ...

During important processes like cleaning, fragments of plastic are lost as microplastics. This means the system itself creates plastic waste, and we urgently need to rethink the design and operation ...