Today, rubber materials are found everywhere, supporting areas like transportation, health services, and consumer products.

In this pursuit, chemical recycling stands as a testament to our determination to reshape the plastics industry into one that reflects sustainability, responsibility and forward-thinking ingenuity.

Enzymatic recycling has gained traction in recent years as a greener alternative to traditional plastic recycling techniques, ...

Waste is a problem that’s vexed the wind energy industry and provided fodder for those who seek to discredit wind power.

Scientists around the world can now go full throttle in their research into chemical plastics recycling. Researchers at ETH Zurich have laid important foundations for this by showing that it’s all ...

DePoly SA, Sion, Switzerland, has announced a $13.8 million seed funding round that will help it to scale its chemical recycling technology that converts mixed postconsumer and postindustrial ...

Although this process does result in new plastic products, their quality deteriorates with each recycling step. An alternative to this is chemical recycling, which avoids loss of quality.

“This chemistry is a really important step,” says University of Washington chemical engineer Julie Rorrer, who works on plastics recycling and was not a part of the study.

How do recycling centers separate materials? What are the steps in the recycling process? Learn the answers to your burning questions about recycling as we dive behind the scenes at a recycling ...