US producers of polyethylene — a common plastic used in everything from packaging to containers — are buying more of a key ...

Polyethylene plastics — in particular, the ubiquitous plastic bag that blights the landscape — are notoriously hard to recycle. They’re sturdy and difficult to break down, and if they’re recycled at ...

Polyethylene plastics -- single-use bags and general-purpose bottles -- are indestructable forever plastics. That also makes them hard to recycle. Chemists have found a way to break down the polymer - ...

A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics that dominate the waste stream today and turn them into hydrocarbon building blocks for new plastics. Since the 1950s, the surge in global ...

Researchers develop a one-pot, low temperature catalytic method to turn polyethylene polymers into alkylaromatic molecules. When we started using plastics about 70 years ago, not much thought -- if ...

Upcycling polyethylene (the normal ubiquitous plastic we are all familiar with) into high-value plastics that can compete with “virgin” plastic (meaning plastics made directly from petro-chemicals) is ...

Dublin, Jan. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Post-consumer Recycled Plastics Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Source, By Type, By Region, And Segment Forecasts, 2025 - 2030" report has ...