To make the circular economy successful at scale, it is essential to drive efforts with science and facts rather than emotions.

A new discovery offers a promising way to break down stubborn plastics like Plexiglass into their original building blocks, ...

Acrylic polymers such as poly (methyl methacrylate)—the plastic used in Plexiglas—are durable materials with a huge variety of commercial applications. But the all-carbon backbones that give these ...

The Japanese company says it initially will target used automotive materials such as airbags with its depolymerization ...

Tokyo, Japan, February 20, 2025-Toray Industries has announced a breakthrough in recycling nylon 66. The company recently ...

A research team has introduced an innovative solution for the depolymerization of polyethylene terephthalate (PET). This ...

A research team from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Nanjing ...

Accelerating Depolymerization Technology Commercialization through Comprehensive Recycling Solution Center Integrated with ...

Lapo Srl, an Italian eyewear lens manufacturer, and specialty and sustainable material provider Trinseo, based in Wayne, ...

A chemical recycling process that reduces polymers to their raw materials plays a crucial role in circular economy. To contribute to chemical recycling, this study proposes a system that simulates the ...

Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan Innovative Catalysis Science Division, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research ...

This startling mechanism for promoting depolymerization relies on an additive that many plastics already contain: a pigment called carbon black that gives plastic its black color. Through a ...