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…
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Photo of a plastic bag underwater. A team of scientists, led by Aaron Sadow, a researcher at Ames National Laboratory, Professor of Chemistry at Iowa…
In the study, 12 cyanobacterial strains were examined for their ability to biosorb rare earth elements, as a sustainable alternative for bioremediation and metal recovery.…
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…
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…
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…
Plastic waste may one day be upcycled to useful commodity chemicals instead of ending up in the environment. Credit: Image by Cortland Johnson | Pacific…
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…
Researchers have developed a method that converts cotton into sugar, which can then be turned into spandex, nylon, or ethanol. Many of us try to…
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…
Carolina chemists develop a way to modify common polymers used in grocery bags, water and soda bottles and packaging to make it easier — and…
Direct recycling is the least energy-intensive method of recycling a lithium-ion battery. Credit: ReCell Center How do we make battery recycling cost effective? Scientists at…
Each human being uses, on average, 30 kg of plastic per year. Given that global life expectancy currently stands at approximately 70 years, each person…
Only about 2% of plastics are fully recycled currently. PDK plastics could solve the single-use crisis. A new environmental and technological analysis suggests that a…
Iron-catalyzed [2+2] oligomerization of butadiene produces (1,n’-divinyl)oligocyclobutane, a new polymer that can be chemically recycled. Credit: Figure by Jonathan Darmon of the Princeton University Department…
Researcher Melissa Tumen-Velasquez works with microbes to understand how the organisms consume plastics and break them into chemical components that can be used to make…
Multilayer plastic materials are ubiquitous in food and medical supply packaging, particularly since layering polymers can give those films specific properties, like heat resistance or…
A team of scientists led by NTU has developed a novel method of using fruit peel waste to extract and reuse precious metals from spent…
[embedded content] Research lays out viable pathway to “break the plastic wave.” A new analysis by The Pew Charitable Trusts and SYSTEMIQ finds that without…