Substantial efforts are being made to advance recycling technologies, transforming discarded plastics into raw materials that can be reused. Chemical recycling emerges as a major frontier in this ...

-Process enables the efficient recycling of PMMA-based materials -Scheduled to be commissioned Q1 2024 in Rho, Italy -Supports continued transformation of the company’s portfolio to focus on ...

Lignin (an aromatic macromolecule in biomass), the only renewable source of aromatics, is currently treated as waste and under-utilized. A more appealing and value-added use of lignin is as a ...

Depolymerization process. By employing high pressure, reactor operators can achieve highly efficient depolymerization of polyethylene (PE) of varying densities or polypropylene (PP). The pressure ...

Lignin, a renewable aromatic biopolymer with complex three-dimensional networks and diverse functional groups, represents a promising sustainable feedstock for value-added chemicals and fuels. However ...

Lake County Board members went back and forth Tuesday over language in the Solid Waste Management Plan Update on a technology taking the recycling world by storm, “depolymerization,” a type of plastic ...

Lignin depolymerization is playing a pivotal role in transforming the second most abundant biopolymers in nature into many valuable chemicals/fuels. This route could directly replace their ...

Plastic circularity for difficult-to-recycle packaging materials continues to progress. In the latest development, Solvay and Carbios have successfully demonstrated that multilayer PET films coated ...

Image of a very large green recycling truck on the road between a car and a pickup truck. Credit: Will Ludwig/C&EN/Shutterstock At its headquarters complex in ...