A team of researchers led by Brent Sumerlin, the George B. Butler Professor in the University of Florida Department of Chemistry, has made a breakthrough with the potential to transform how we recycle plastics. Their innovative ...
Polymers
Aug 7, 2023
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A new method for recycling colored plastics has been developed by scientists at Cardiff University.
Polymers
Jul 25, 2023
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It's lightweight, low-cost, almost endlessly customizable, and concerningly ubiquitous: For all its benefits, plastic—and plastic waste—is a big problem. Unlike glass, which is infinitely recyclable, plastic recycling ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 24, 2023
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Chemists at CU Boulder have developed a new way to recycle a common type of plastic found in soda bottles and other packaging. The team's method relies on electricity and some nifty chemical reactions, and it's simple enough ...
Polymers
Jul 5, 2023
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A team of environmental engineers at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland and Dalhousie University Halifax in Canada has found that techniques for recycling plastics may inadvertently lead to increased environmental ...
With only a small percentage of plastics recycled, determining the best way to recycle and reuse these materials may enable higher adoption of plastics recycling and reduce plastic waste pollution. Researchers at the U.S. ...
Polymers
Jan 17, 2023
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PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, is one of the most produced plastics in the United States and the third highest by volume in the world.
Polymers
Nov 30, 2022
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Plastic pollution is overwhelming landfills, littering Earth's coastlines, and affecting the health of animals, including humans, while also contributing to environmental degradation and climate change.
Environment
Nov 18, 2022
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While plastics or synthetic polymers have many useful properties, their mismanagement has resulted in widespread pollution that chokes up our ecosystems. As a solution to this, many synthetic polymers are sent for reprocessing ...
Polymers
Sep 27, 2022
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Researchers from the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) have developed a new enzyme engineering platform to improve plastic degrading enzymes through directed evolution.
Biochemistry
Aug 11, 2022
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