A recognition program aimed at boosting plastics recycling is expanding to include polypropylene. Association of Plastic Recyclers is adding six new packaging components to the trade group's Preferred ...

Austria’s Steinbeis Polyvert GmbH uses an array of technology provided by Sesotec to sort and recycle postconsumer plastic.

B!Pod, a business unit of Milan, Italy-based Saes Getters, has selected SABIC’s ocean-bound plastic- (OBP-) based polypropylene (PP) resin from global chemicals company SABIC as the material for their ...

Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers. A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics ...

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 ...

The world’s first industrial-scale fossil-free plastics production facility is set to be established in Belgium. The facility will use Lummus’ proven sustainable polymer technology. Vioneo has Lummus ...

Why it matters: All that packaging we've treated as disposable may finally be reborn. Researchers have cracked the code for turning plastic back into the building blocks to make new plastics. It could ...