On the day the Plastics Packaging Tax comes into force (1st April, 2022), Philip Law, Director-General of the BPF, tells InterplasInsights where the confusion still lies. Plus, he looks at the ongoing war in Ukraine, and how it is affecting UK resin supplies. Read more here . #Plastics ...
Upcycling Plastic Waste into More Valuable Materials Could Make Recycling Pay for Itself. A new and simple method for upcycling polycarbonate plastic waste at room temperature has been developed by a team of researchers at the Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies (CSCT) at the...
CO2 Recycling and Efficient Drug Development: Tackling Two Problems with One Reaction Scientists at the Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (ICReDD) in Hokkaido University have developed a method that has the potential to help recycle waste CO2 while also producing molecules...
Princeton Startup Aims to Fast-track Lithium Battery Recycling. Billions of dead lithium-ion batteries, including many from electric vehicles, are accumulating because there is no cost-effective process to revive them. Now, Princeton researchers have developed an inexpensive, sustainable way to...
The United States generates more plastic trash than any other country – about 46.3 million tons of it, or 287 pounds per person a year, according to a 2020 study. The country’s 9% rate of recycling will never keep up. Why so low? The chemistry of today’s plastics makes most difficult to...
Tech giant Samsung made a splash last week when it announced its new Galaxy S22 series. According to the BBC, Samsung is using polyamide resin made from recycled nylon fishing nets. The polyamide is used by Samsung to make the brackets which hold the volume and power keys in place. The BBC says...
Despite efforts to promote recycling and reuse of plastic materials, plastic waste remains an issue. In the US, West Virginia University engineers hope to debottleneck the remaining challenges for recycling of single-use plastic packaging by upcycling them into petrochemicals. Funded by a US$859...
For the first time, a wide range of plastics can now be differentiated and thereby separated according to their chemical composition. This is ground-breaking and it will increase the rate of recycling of plastics immensely. The technology has already been tested at pilot scale and it will be...
Breakthrough in Separating Plastic Waste: Machines can now Distinguish 12 Different Types of Plastic. For the first time, we can now tell the difference between a wide range of plastic types and thereby separate plastics according to their chemical composition. This is absolutely ground...
Dishwasher Components Made From Recycled Plastic. Detergent bottles are frequently manufactured using recycled plastic; however, as far as higher value-added applications are concerned, these recyclates have yet to be deployed on a large scale. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for...
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