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 ...

Dow successor company says its plant in Italy can provide a home for previously hard to recycle acrylic sheet material. Left to right: Valentina Giro from the Rho, Italy, municipality; Vinicio Peluffo ...

Trinseo, headquartered in Wayne, Pennsylvania, has inaugurated its Rho, Italy-based demonstration plant that depolymerizes polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA). The company, a specialty material solutions ...

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 ...

As they tackle the problem of plastics recycling, chemical companies are exploring what depolymerization has to offer. Ineos Styrolution has formed a partnership with two Canadian firms, Pyrowave and ...

Drop-in solution: physically and functionally equivalent to fossil-based alternatives, materials can be used with existing tooling and equipment under the same processing conditions Trinseo’s ...

This startling mechanism for promoting depolymerization relies on an additive that many plastics already contain: a pigment called carbon black that gives plastic its black color. Through a process ...

Tokyo, Japan – A research team led by Professor Kotohiro Nomura from Tokyo Metropolitan University has developed a method for the depolymerization of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) using alcohols ...

NAPCOR’s Lauren Laibach explains shifting supply dynamics, increased thermoform recovery, and mounting pressures on domestic ...