PureCycle Technologies Inc., after spending years developing a unique purification technology to recycle polypropylene, has broken through with the company's first major commercial sale of resin.

A chemist has found a way to create soap out of recycled plastic, which could open new doors for plastic recycling.

Covestro is investing over $100 million in expanding its polycarbonate compounding plant in Hebron, Ohio. The expansion will ...

Polypropylene (PP) is a thermoplastic that has a number of properties that sets it apart from other thermoplastics which see common use with 3D printing, including PLA, ABS and nylon (PA).

PureCycle Technology presents a major development in recycling capabilities, and focusing on polypropylene is especially notable. It’s the second-most used plastic in the world, yet only 1 ...

Professor Edward Kosior  The fifth session of negotiations (INC-5) for a global treaty on plastic pollution at COP29 in Busan ...

the component of most single-use plastic bags; and polypropylene, the stuff of hard plastics, from microwavable dishes to luggage. It also efficiently degrades a mix of the two types of plastics ...

Alongside shiny new industrial processing equipment-grinders, chutes, sorting tables and heavy metal baskets and racks, there ...

As many of these vehicles are 10-plus years old, the composition of the bumpers' polypropylene plastics and adhesives vary dramatically. Therefore, unusable materials must be removed. So ...

One obvious question is where this plastic may be coming from. Given the amount of polypropylene, which is used in bottle caps, one theory is that the act of opening a bottle may shed particles ...

Some tea bags are better than others if you want to avoid ingesting plastic. The tea bags studied by the Barcelona scientists contained polypropylene, cellulose and nylon, but there are many tea ...