A new method to convert low-density plastic waste to fuel and raw materials promises to help close the carbon cycle. Credit: Art by Melanie Hess-Robinson…
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The new biodegradable polyester, due to its excellent chemical and biological degradation abilities and its impressive mechanical properties, has the potential to be used as…
Using sunlight to power the photoredox system pyruvic acid and CO¬2 are converted into fumaric acid, by malate dehydrogenase and fumarase. Credit: Yutaka Amao, Osaka…
Graphical abstract of the research method. Credit: Maaike Goudriaan, NIOZ Laboratory experiment shows that bacteria really eat and digest plastic. The bacterium Rhodococcus ruber eats…
Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new products. This helps to conserve natural resources and reduces the amount of waste sent to…
A recent study has detailed a method of converting plastic waste into a highly porous form of charcoal that has a large surface area of…
Compostable plastic that has not fully disintegrated in compost bin. Credit: Citizen scientist image from www.bigcompostexperiment.org.uk In a UK-wide study, researchers found that 60% of…
Researchers have taken a key step toward greatly expanding the range of plastics that can be recycled. Scientists have taken a key step toward greatly…
The researchers also found that a new membrane demonstrated powerful filtering effects. Researchers from the University of Bayreuth have examined two standard dispersion paints and…
Plastic waste may one day be upcycled to useful commodity chemicals instead of ending up in the environment. Credit: Image by Cortland Johnson | Pacific…
A new study reveals the impact of microplastics on small mammals. More than half of the species investigated had traces of plastic in their excrement,…
A freshwater lake in Norway, one of 29 European lakes that were part of the study. Credit: Samuel Woodman Scientists discovered that some naturally-occurring lake…
The team’s vanillin derivative can be degraded upon command. This instruction would be sent with a certain wavelength of light. Light-based upcycling: crosslinked polymers produced…
They discovered that incorporating even 3% of sugar polymer units into PLA (Poly(lactic acid) caused PLA to degrade by 40% after six hours of UV…
The lepidopteran Galleria mellonella worm species is able to quickly break down polyethylene through the use of its saliva. A CSIC research team found that…
According to new research, plastic pollution in the ocean may serve as a source for new antibiotics. Many environmentalists point to plastic pollution in the…
Visual of two variations of the catalyst, with a segment of the shell removed to show the interior. The white sphere represents the silica shell,…
Microplastics are fragments of any type of plastic that are less than 5 mm (0.20 in) in length. Microplastics are small plastic pieces less than…
Timelapse of plastic degradation. A new enzyme variant can break down plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of hours to…
A plastic jug is fodder for a material developed at Rice University that turns waste plastic into a material that absorbs carbon dioxide. The lab…