Plastic is everywhere in modern society. While it has paved the way for enormous progress, the pollution it leaves behind is ...
We’ve managed to accumulate so much plastic trash that it’s daunting to think about what could be done with the tons upon tons of nonbiodegradable waste. And as much as we are trying to scale back our ...
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Scientists discover incredible way to make plastic materials nearly indestructible — and then completely disappear
"Future research can build on these results." Scientists discover incredible way to make plastic materials nearly ...
The PRecycling project aims to recover high-quality polymeric materials enabling up to 100% recycled content incorporation in ...
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German scientists to make plastics with crop waste for use in medical products, car components
Researchers in Germany are set to turn green waste, hay and algae into fully ...
Plastics have a lot of properties that have made them fixtures of modern societies. They can be molded into any shape we’d like, they’re tough yet flexible, and they come in enough variations that we ...
Researchers have successfully synthesized fumarate (fumaric acid), a raw material for unsaturated polyester resin, by combining carbon dioxide (CO2) with pyruvate (derived from biomass), using two ...
Our plastic waste can be used as raw material for detergents, thanks to an improved catalytic method
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — We’ve managed to accumulate so much plastic trash that it’s daunting to think about what could be done with the tons upon tons of nonbiodegradable waste. And as much as we ...
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