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Researchers at the University of Adelaide have innovated a method to convert polyethylene waste into valuable chemicals using light-driven photocatalysis and solar energy, paving the…
The team’s newly developed chemical process can upcycle polyesters to morpholine amides using the solvent morpholine and a small amount of titanium-based catalyst. Credit: Tokyo…
Valuable chemicals are selectively produced from mixed plastic waste by an ORNL-developed plastic deconstruction process. Credit: Tomonori Saito, Md Arifuzzaman and Adam Malin, ORNL/U.S. Dept.…
Researchers have developed a method to upcycle plastics into valuable surfactants used in products like soap and detergents. This discovery, rooted in the molecular similarity…
In a new study published in Environmental Science and Technology Letters, fluorinated high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plastic containers — used for household cleaners, pesticides, personal care…
Researchers used highly sensitive imaging techniques and developed machine learning methods that can identify compostable plastics among conventional types. Researchers have created classification models that enable…
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…
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…