A chemical process converts common types of plastic waste into the building blocks needed to make new plastics 1. The build-up of plastic waste in landfills and the environment poses substantial ...

Or, to put another way, capacity utilization remains low for both production — stampers, die-casters and plastic processors — and tooling industries at 55 percent and 71 percent, respectively.

This discount is shown at checkout, if applicable. An estimated 52 million metric tons of plastic is spilling uncontrolled into the environment every year, according to a new study (Nature 2024 ...

Machine learning has been used to turn a survey of local waste-management practices into a global inventory of plastic emissions. The data show that tackling plastic pollution will require reduced ...

A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics that dominate the waste stream today and turn them into hydrocarbon building blocks for new plastics. The catalytic process, developed at the ...

Chemists have developed a catalytic process that turns the largest component of today's plastic waste stream, polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that ...

The world produces around 250 million tons of plastic waste in municipalities in one year — plastic bottles, cigarette butts, plastic packaging and much more. Much of that waste — equivalent ...

Despite the planet’s growing plastic pollution crisis, petroleum-based polymers have become an integral part of modern life. They make cars and airplanes lighter and more energy efficient.

Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" in the video player above. HOUSTON, Tex.—When the news crew showed up outside a waste-handling business ...

Asbestos abatement is needed at the Outwater Park Water Tower Pump House. The contractor hired to replace the roof of the brick building informed the city that it found traces of asbestos earlier ...

In one experiment that revealed the new plastic's strength, a 0.04-millimeter-thick strip of the material withstood a load of 6 kilograms. Moreover, the team discovered that the new material had ...

JB Pritzker. As an organizer and advocate working in Chicago to reduce single-use plastics, I’d like to share some insights about how this came to be. Dozens of civic groups, museums and ...