Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a solar-powered process that converts hard-to-recycle plastic waste and used car battery acid into clean hydrogen and valuable chemicals. The ...

A breakthrough in chemical recycling could turn plastic waste into high-value materials, reshaping a trillion-dollar ...

Substantial efforts are being made to advance recycling technologies, transforming discarded plastics into raw materials that can be reused. Chemical recycling emerges as a major frontier in this ...

Lignin, a renewable aromatic biopolymer with complex three-dimensional networks and diverse functional groups, represents a promising sustainable feedstock for value-added chemicals and fuels. However ...

Depolymerization process. By employing high pressure, reactor operators can achieve highly efficient depolymerization of polyethylene (PE) of varying densities or polypropylene (PP). The pressure ...

Two major recycling innovations have been unveiled: a Cambridge-led process that turns plastic waste into clean hydrogen using old car battery acid and solar power, and Denovia's rapid ...

Lake County Board members went back and forth Tuesday over language in the Solid Waste Management Plan Update on a technology taking the recycling world by storm, “depolymerization,” a type of plastic ...

Grist thanks its sponsors. Become one. To support our nonprofit environmental journalism, please consider disabling your ad-blocker to allow ads on Grist. Here's How A polymer is a large group of ...

Researchers have shown that a common plastic additive called carbon black can depolymerize polystyrene and polyvinyl chloride (PVC), two of the least recycled plastics in the planet’s waste stream It ...