Most of the 360-billion-plus metric tons of plastic manufactured each year isn’t recycled. Some of that’s due to laziness—in the U.S., where plastic bottles can be easily recycled almost everywhere, ...

A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics that dominate the waste stream today and turn them into hydrocarbon building blocks for new plastics. The catalytic process, developed at the ...

Polysmart Packaging Limited, one of Nigeria’s leading plastic recyclers, has announced a $60 million expansion to construct ...

The world is miserable at recycling plastics. Currently, just 10–15% of the plastic waste we generate annually is recycled — with the rest incinerated, buried in landfill or dumped as litter 1, 2. A ...

HOUSTON, Nov. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lummus Technology, a global provider of process technologies and value-driven energy solutions, and Citroniq Chemicals announced that the two companies have ...

MIDLAND, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shandong Shenda Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (Shenda), has selected UNIPOL™ Polypropylene Process Technology from The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) for its new 200 KTA ...

BPCL expands its license arrangements with Grace, including supply of acclaimed and non-phthalate CONSISTA(R) catalysts, to add 950 kilotons of capacity at the Kochi and Bina refineries COLUMBIA, Md., ...

Resynergi is awaiting approval of an air quality permit for its plastic processing plant in SOMO village, which would melt plastic into oil. Residents are concerned about the facility's proximity to a ...

11 March 2006 AHVAZ - The catalyst paste was injected into the polypropylene unit of the Marun Petrochemical Plant as the final part of a pilot project before the new unit comes on stream.As part of ...

Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers. A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics ...