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To accelerate plastics recycling, the old adage "If you build it, they will come" simply doesn't hold up. Making headway ...

A new approach to plastic recycling being explored at Penn State could make the process more efficient by using tiny ...

In October 2023, Mura Technology launched its groundbreaking HydroPRS plant in Teesside, designed to tackle the challenge of recycling difficult plastics. Utilizing supercritical water, this process ...

Nearly all black plastics get sent to the landfill or get incinerated because their pigment makes them difficult to sort in plastics recycling plants. As a result, the recycling industry pays little ...

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A joint research team has developed a technology to produce high-value-added plastic raw materials called dicarboxylic acids (α,ω-diacids) by recycling mixed waste plastics. The work is published in ...

Plastics are inescapable in our daily lives. The vast amounts of plastic garbage heaped in landfills and in the environment, however, are as problematic as the plastics are useful. A research team has ...

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When newly manufactured, or virgin, plastic becomes cheap, companies can have little financial reason to buy recycled material instead. Recyclers have to pay to collect, sort and process discarded ...