Tag: recycling
New Method Uses Collisions to Break Down Plastic for Sustainable Recycling
While plastics help enable modern standards of living, their accumulation in landfills and the overall environment continues to grow as a global concern.
Polyethylene terephthalate...
A device to convert plastic waste into fuel
As tons of plastic waste continue to build up in landfills every day, Yale researchers have developed a way to convert this waste into...
Living Plastic Houses Bacterial Spores That Help It Break Down
A new type of bioplastic could help reduce the plastic industry’s environmental footprint. Researchers led by the University of California San Diego have developed...
Rice lab finds better way to handle hard-to-recycle material
The process transforms glass fiber-reinforced plastic into silicon carbide
A better way to handle hard-to-recycle material is glass fiber-reinforced plastic (GFRP), a strong and durable...
Artificial Intelligence Revolutionize Recycling
Artificial Intelligence Revolutionize Recycling: Automation and artificial intelligence are revolutionizing industries globally and that includes the recycling sector. One remarkable example can be found...
Germany to Get Europe’s Largest Advanced Recycling Plant
Mura Technology will build the advanced recycling facility at Dow’s Böhlen site in Germany. Completion is expected by 2025.
Germany to Get Europe’s Largest Advanced...
Molecular Simulations to Study Self-Assembling ‘Associating Polymers’
by Kaitlyn Landram, Carnegie Mellon University Materials Science and Engineering
Molecular Simulations to Study Self-Assembling 'Associating Polymers': When plastic materials are processed or recycled, their fundamental...
Engineering Enzymes to Help Solve the Planet’s Plastic Problem
by University of Manchester
Researchers from the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) have developed a new enzyme engineering platform toimprove plastic degrading enzymes through directed evolution.
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Designer Materials to Keep Plastic Out of Landfills
– By Alison Hatt
Scientists have designed a new material system to overcome one of the biggest challenges in recycling consumer products: mixed-plastic recycling. Their achievement will...
Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Tons of Waste
An enzyme variant created by engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin can break down environment-throttling plastics that typically take centuries...
