Those flimsy black plastic pots your flowers and herbs come in might seem harmless, but most end up clogging landfills instead of being reused. The good news? You don’t need to throw them out.
Our planet is choking on plastics. Some of the worst offenders, which can take decades to degrade in landfills, are polypropylene—which is used for things such as food packaging and bumpers—and ...
Finished plastic bottles and empty snack bags. Plastic recycling involves collecting used materials and using them as raw ...
A new type of adhesive that can be cleanly removed from plastic bottles and packaging before disposal could lead to better-quality recycled plastic, a new study has shown. The adhesives used to stick ...
They are durable, cheap and everyday life is now hardly imaginable without them: plastics. More then 400 million metric tons ...
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This collaboration between four RASEI Fellows shows how electricity can be used to impart ‘superoxide powers’ to oxygen gas molecules from air, enabling the efficient recycling of PET plastics. In ...