Plastics do not readily break down naturally, so there has been no great way to dispose these materials in an environmentally friendly manner. Advances such as the development of recycling streams ...

A radical new process “vaporizes” plastic bags and bottles to help make recycled materials. American scientists say the innovative chemical procedure turns ubiquitous waste items into hydrocarbon ...

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Chemists at UC Berkeley said they have created a new laboratory process that could represent a major step forward in recycling plastic products — from single-use bags commonly found in grocery stores ...

DOW CHEMICAL scientists have used their unique "chain-shuttling" polymerization technique to make polyethylene block copolymers that can self-assemble into materials with ordered phases that give rise ...