Imagine taking heaps and heaps of earth-polluting, unusable plastic waste and actually transforming it into something constructive? Plastic pollution is a proliferating and increasingly overwhelming ...
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 ...
Polyethylene plastics -- single-use bags and general-purpose bottles -- are indestructable forever plastics. That also makes them hard to recycle. Chemists have found a way to break down the polymer - ...
A new process that converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled into new PET products or upcycled into higher value materials. Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern ...
The global cover blocks market size was valued at US$ 1.5 Bn in 2024 and is projected to reach US$ 2.4 Bn by 2035, growing at ...
Lego, the iconic toy company know for its building blocks, is changing its formula for building plastic bricks to help the environment. Legos, the ubiquitous building blocks known to children around ...
GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Kurt Schlosser on Jun 30, 2023 at ...
Researchers at a Scottish University have converted plastic waste into a key building block for anti-cancer drugs. Currently, these types of medication ...