Chemical recycling uses heat or chemicals to break down plastics. The main method, a process known as pyrolysis, has long ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alterra's liquefaction plant in Akron, Ohio, uses pyrolysis as its chemical recycling process to manufacture new plastics. The ...

The EPA is reconsidering air pollution regulations for chemical plastic recycling facilities, prompting concerns from ...

A combined team of chemical and biomolecular engineers from the University of Delaware, and the Center for Plastics Innovation, both in the U.S., has developed a way to chemically separate fibers in ...

For two decades, the federal government has classified the heated chambers used to break down plastic waste as incinerators, ...

Engineers have modeled a new way to recycle polystyrene that could become the first viable way of making the material reusable. The chemical method identified to tackle hard-to-recycle packaging ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — While Eastman Chemical’s molecular recycling technology may have won company leaders the ears of ...

Aduro Clean Technologies has successfully completed initial testing of synthetic turf as a feedstock for its proprietary hydrochemolytic technology (HCT), demonstrating a potential solution for a ...

Plastic bottles and other trash pile up along the bank of the San Gabriel River in Seal Beach, Calif. Credit: Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images When former top ...

Chemical recycling of polyamides, commonly known as nylons, represents a promising strategy to recover valuable monomers and reduce environmental waste. This process involves breaking down the polymer ...

New chemical reactions aren't everyday phenomena, but that's exactly what researchers in Australia discovered, and it could ...

New TNO research tackles the core challenge: recycling complex, mixed textile waste that current technologies cannot process.