Nestlé Pure Life® Launches New Bottle Made From 100% Recycled Plastic
The company aims to inspire consumers to recycle by debuting new bottles made entirely from recycled ones
February 2018
Stamford, Conn. – Today, Nestlé® Pure Life® Purified...
New recyclable resin makes wind turbines much more sustainable
Doug Adams, Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Daniel F. Flowers Professor, said that made wind turbines an ideal project for the Institute...
New research overcomes incompatibility in recycling plastics
When Geoffrey Coates, the Tisch University Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, gives a talk about plastics and recycling, he usually opens with this question:...
Why a plastics rethink?
Love them or hate them, plastics are everywhere around us. In fact, demand for them is expected to double in the next 20 years....
Toho Tenax recognized for “Closed Circle of Thermoplastic Composites”
The recycled compound shows 34% less environmental impact and 40-60% lower cost vs. original formulation. Toho Tenax’s recycled compound, chips and crushed. Toho Tenax Europe...
Envision Plastics launches first bottle using 100 percent OceanBound plastic
ATLANTA, Feb. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Envision Plastics is excited to announce the launch the world's first bottle using its proprietary OceanBound Plastic at 100% content and...
ecoBirdy upcycles old and unused plastic toys into furniture
Plastic pollution — a global issue affecting all of us — is no secret to anyone, and as we keep consuming plastic there is...
Bio-renewable process could help ‘green’ plastic
When John Wesley Hyatt patented the first industrial plastic in 1869, his intention was to create an alternative to the elephant tusk ivory used...
ASU developing biodegradable plastics made from bacteria
The world is awash in discarded plastics. A recent estimate of the amount of plastic in Earth’s environment puts it at 6.3 billion metric...
From greenhouse gases to plastics: New catalyst for recycling carbon dioxide discovered
Imagine if we could take CO2, that most notorious of greenhouse gases, and convert it into something useful. Something like plastic, for example. The...