Chemists have developed a catalytic process that turns the largest component of today's plastic waste stream, polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that are ...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and University of California, Santa Barbara researchers teamed with Dow to develop a breakthrough process to transform the most widely produced plastic — ...

University of Adelaide researchers have detailed how solar-driven photoreforming can convert plastic waste into hydrogen and other valuable chemicals at low temperatures. The process uses ...

image: Scott Svadlenak, right, and Kostas Goulas discuss possible reaction mechanisms for the PVC to waxes process. Photo by Johanna Carson. view more CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers in the Oregon State ...

Researchers at the University of Adelaide have demonstrated a solar-driven photoreforming process that converts plastic waste into hydrogen and other valuable chemicals. The method uses ...

We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics that dominate the waste stream today and turn them into hydrocarbon building blocks for new plastics. The catalytic process, developed at the ...