Tag: sustainability
Atoms to Materials: Unlock path to Sustainable Technologies
Atoms to Materials: Unlock path to Sustainable Technologies: New research by the University of Liverpool could signal a step change in the quest to...
Advancing Material Innovation to Address the Polymer Waste Crisis
MIT researchers work to discover biodegradable polyesters, with support from the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium, J-WAFS, and DIC Corp.
Advancing Material Innovation to Address...
Using Pineapple Stems to make New Bio Plastic Sheet Material
A team of researchers from universities in Thailand and Malaysia have collaborated to develop a unique kind of bioplastic sheet that is good for...
Breakthrough Research Allows Recycling of Mixed Plastics
Breakthrough Research Allows Recycling of Mixed Plastics: Plastics are everywhere in our daily lives, but not all plastics are created equal – far from...
Fungi Makes Meal of Hard to Recycle Plastic
Fungi Makes Meal of Hard to Recycle Plastic: Polypropylene, a hard to recycle plastic, has successfully been biodegraded by two strains of fungi in...
Sustainability Students Bring Dead Solar Panels Back to Life
By Blaine Friedlander, Cornell Chronicle
Sustainability Students Bring Dead Solar Panels Back to Life: Students are using polyurethane, resin, epoxy – and gallons of wit –...
Recycling Previously Unrecyclable Polyvinyl Chloride
by University of Michigan
Recycling Previously Unrecyclable Polyvinyl Chloride: PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, is one of the most produced plastics in the United States and the...
3 New Industry Changing Plastic Packaging Methods
For markets from food to pharma, three diverse breakthroughs share a common theme of improving sustainability, in one case up to 88%.
3 New Industry...
Eco-Friendly and Biodegradable Paper Senses Attributes about Food
by Seoul National University
Eco-Friendly and Biodegradable Paper Senses Attributes about Food: A research group led by Prof. Seung Hwan Ko from the Dept. of Mechanical...
Dow Accelerates Goals for Circular Plastics
Company will meet rapidly growing demand with 2030 Transform the Waste target by building industrial ecosystems to collect, reuse, or recycle plastic waste.
Dow Accelerates...
