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New Technology for Chemical Recycling of Textile Wastes

The apparel industry accounts for 10% of global carbon emissions. The annual amount of fiber production reached 113 million tons in 2021* and the demand is increasing every year.

21 Mar 2023

Novel Enzymatic Fiber Separation Technique Helps Reduce Textile Waste

North Carolina State University scientists discovered a way to separate blended cotton and polyester fabric using enzymes, which are nature’s tools for speeding up chemical reactions

21 Mar 2023

Chemical Recycling Route for the Conversion of HDPE

Plastics are astounding materials with properties that are essential to the operation of the modern world. They are adjustable, strong, versatile, long-lasting, and reasonably priced.

15 Mar 2023

Woodward L’Orange Announces Move to 100% Recycled Packaging

Woodward L’Orange – one of the world’s leading manufacturers of injection systems and engine components used in ships, powerplants, oil platforms, trains and mining vehicles - has strengthened its environmental commitment with the announcement it is switching to a new range of fully recycled plastic packaging for its products.

7 Mar 2023

Biomass of Photosynthetic Cyanobacteria can Absorb Rare Earth Elements from Wastewater

Rare earth elements (REEs) are a group of 17 chemically similar metals, which got their name because they typically occur at low concentrations (between 0.5 and 67 parts per million) within the Earth's crust.

1 Mar 2023

A New Sustainable Plastic Upcycling Process

Grocery bags, used face masks, and food wraps potentially contain plenty of useful raw materials in them. But it has been much more economical to keep manufacturing more of these one-time-use plastics than to undertake recovery and recycling processes of those items.

24 Feb 2023

Plastics Upcycling Could be Made More Sustainable with New Zirconia-Based Catalyst

A new type of catalyst breaks down polyolefin plastics into new, useful products.

23 Feb 2023

AIMPLAS Develops a New Method for Converting Marine Plastic Waste Into Aquaculture Products

The aim of the ÑCostas Project is to convert plastic material recovered from the marine environment into new recyclable and sustainable materials for use in products for aquaculture.

22 Feb 2023

Battery Day - Second-life Batteries: Reuse Needs to Sit Firmly Alongside Design for Recycling

Battery Day (18 February) celebrates the convenience that batteries bring to our everyday lives – in our phones, our computers, our electronics, our cars and our energy storage.

13 Feb 2023

Upcycling Plastic Waste into More Valuable Products

The world generates about 300 million tons of plastic waste annually, and more than 90% of all plastic ever made has never been recycled. Part of what drives all that waste into landfills or into the environment is the difficulty of recycling plastic, which is designed to last for a very long time.

8 Feb 2023