A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics that dominate the waste stream today and turn them into hydrocarbon building blocks for new plastics. The catalytic process, developed at the ...

DUBAI, 14 May 2011 (WAM) The UAE has finalized the systems and processes in making plastic bags in the country biodegradable over the next two years. All providers and suppliers of Oxo-Biodegradable ...

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 ...

The UAE has finalized the systems and processes in making plastic bags in the country biodegradable over the next two years. DUBAI, UAE (14 May 2011) - The UAE has finalized the systems and processes ...

Online and rapid deliveries are being blamed for a rise in single-use bag sales. Technical fixes and easy wins could reverse the increase, say experts The number of single-use plastic bags sold in ...

TORONTO (Reuters Life!) - As countries and cities around the world move to ban plastic bags, a Canadian teenager is tackling the problem of what to do with them. Waterloo, Ontario, high school student ...

In short: More retailers are replacing plastic net bags with recyclable paper bags for mandarins this season. Citrus packing companies say they have been leading the change on sustainable packaging.