By 2021 annual production had roughly doubled, with the trade in plastics (and goods containing it) estimated to be worth ...

Much of the U.S. uses single-stream recycling, where plastic, glass and paper go into one bin. Here’s what happens to that ...

or monomers. The process generates raw materials such as ethylene and propylene from mixed plastics, which are then used for new plastic products. Sumitomo Chemical is investing in a technique ...

The Swiss company says the facility will be capable of processing 500 tons per year of PET and polyester scrap.

Plastics exist as polymers, long chains of monomers that have been joined together chemically. The holy grail of plastic recycling would be to convert the polymers back to monomers and then use ...

Dimethoxymethane (DMM) carbonylation provides a mild, green and sustainable route for production of degradable plastic monomers, glycolic acid. ZEO-1 zeolite contains large cages comprised of 16× ...

HOUSTON, April 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today it will support biotech innovator, Samsara Eco, to design its first-of-a-kind plastics and textile enzymatic recycling plant ...

Once the salt was removed, and the thicker liquid dried, it became a plastic the team called alkyl SP. The bridges holding the monomers together are stable unless exposed to the sorts of salts ...

Glycolic acid and methyl glycolate are monomers for the production of degradable plastics, polyglycolic acid, which exhibit high tensile strength, impact resistance and excellent barrier properties.