“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.

Freeman implies that chemical recycling is an extension of this deception and raises doubts that it will contribute to an industry target of “reusing, recycling or recovering 100 percent of ...

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&rsquo ...

Recycling these materials is difficult due to the extensive cross-linking within the polymer structure, which gives rubber its durability but also makes it resistant to degradation.

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 ...

The government is set to decide whether a proposed new recycling plant - capable of producing a component of sustainable ...

Carbon Rivers, a Tennessee-based company, has worked with the US Department of Energy to help scale up its “pyrolysis” technology – a form of chemical recycling that uses very high heat in ...

— By Plasteurope.com correspondent — Brussels-based waste management group Chemical Recycling Europe (CRE, www.chemicalrecyclingeurope.eu) has announced the publication of a framework that it says ...

A mild, two-step method to recycle rubber . Against the backdrop of growing waste and unsustainable recycling practices, a team led by Dr. Aleksandr Zhukhovitskiy, an assistant professor and William R ...