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Plastic-eating microbes, used as a food source, could help tackle two of the world’s biggest problems — plastic pollution and ...

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Plastics make up around a quarter of the materials contained in electronic waste (e-waste). The proportion that is recycled ...

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Producers of recycled-content plastic and their suppliers face challenges involving uneven scrap supplies and shifting global ...

For a circular plastic economy, TNO is developing more efficient recycling methods for plastics. Discover the challenges and ...

Easter Island, the tiny remote speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is stuck in an oceanic vortex of plastic.

Neste and Braskem have reached an agreement for the supply of renewable and recycled feedstocks for polymers and chemicals ...

"We can't continue to work in silos," said Avolio, value chain manager for resin maker Nova Chemicals of Calgary, Alberta.