Plastic recycling is inefficient, toxic, and hard to scale. Engineers are now exploring better material flows to build safer ...

A review article analyzes the latest methods in plastic recycling guided by process systems engineering approaches, including ...

As tons of plastic waste continue to build up in landfills every day, Yale researchers have developed a way to convert this ...

Plastics engineering major Shnaidie Macajoux and her family emigrated from Haiti, which has huge piles of plastic trash everywhere, and almost no recycling infrastructure. So, when she saw an ...

Engineered molded plastic cooling towers are one piece, so there are no problems with seams, welds and patches that wear prematurely. Engineered plastic cooling towers are also rust- and corrosion ...

Now, Northwestern Engineering-led researchers have discovered how cells of a Comamonas bacterium are breaking down plastic for food. First, they chew the plastic into small pieces, called nanoplastics ...

Researchers have developed a new enzyme engineering platform to improve plastic degrading enzymes through directed evolution. Researchers from the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) have ...

[ModBot] has been trying different engineering plastics for 3D printing. He recently looked at carbon fiber mixed with PET, but this time, he shows us his results with PET with glass fiber, or PET ...