It’s not just fun and games: Vanillin (vanilla extract) is used in everything from food to pharmaceuticals to cosmetics. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland have found a way to turn ...

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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 ...

Plastic bottles are not only piling up in our landfills and oceans. Research shows they also shed invisible plastic particles that end up in our bodies. A new study found that a one-liter bottle of ...

A research team has demonstrated that a material called a metal-organic framework (MOF) is a stable and selective catalyst for breaking down polyester-based plastic into its component parts. Only ...

A radical new process “vaporizes” plastic bags and bottles to help make recycled materials. American scientists say the innovative chemical procedure turns ubiquitous waste items into hydrocarbon ...

The plant is estimated to transform up to 30,000 tonnes of plastic into 100 percent recycled bottles every year.