Plastic bags are made through a process that starts with raw materials such as polyethylene pellets. These pellets are fed into an extrusion machine, where they are heated and melted into a uniform ...

A radical new process "vaporizes" plastic bags and bottles to help make recycled materials. The innovative chemical procedure turns the ubiquitous waste items into hydrocarbon "building blocks ...

From discovering plastic-eating bacterium to finding a new catalytic process in soils, the Aristilde Research Group had a ...

Discover how Kingspan recycles 1 billion PET bottles annually into insulation by 2025, reducing plastic waste and promoting a ...

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has issued a positive scientific opinion for the Liquid State Polycondensation (LSP) process for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic recycling developed ...