A new process to recycle existing plastics indefinitely and reduce the flood of plastics into landfills is being developed by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley. From sandwich bags ...

Plastic waste surrounds daily life, from food containers and grocery bags to shampoo bottles and medical supplies. Much of it ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

ZHOUSHAN, ZHEJIANG, CHINA, January 16, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The global plastics processing industry continues to ...

Researchers in Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Department of Chemical Engineering and at the University of Akron have published research in Chemical Engineering Journal about a new technology that ...

Plastic waste has long outpaced our ability to deal with it, largely because the most common packaging plastics are hard to ...

Advances in materials, tooling, and technology continue to blur the line between the most suitable process and a given application. Thermoforming, of course, can be used to make everything from ...

A team of chemical engineers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Delaware claims it has discovered a new way to make plastic bottles from biomass rather than petroleum.

Polyelectrolytes with varying degrees of intrinsic screening form compleximers upon mixing in solution.Four investigated polyelectrolytes consist of a polystyrene backbone with ionic liquid-inspired ...

The public has the opportunity to voice its opinion on the impact the $1.1 billion plastics processing plant proposed in Northumberland County will have on the environment. John Zaktansky, the Middle ...

Medical device manufacturing has always been a balancing act between innovation and regulation. For companies specializing in plastic components—whether injection-molded housings, fluid connectors, ...