Chemical Recycling

A Dow executive discusses end-market potential for recovered flexible films, and an article explores the challenges of recovering plastics from...

Two retired U.S. EPA scientists have spearheaded development of a technology to depolymerize polyester and recover cotton in mixed-material textiles....

A documentary film investigating the ocean plastics problem heads to theaters, and a new technology from France scans packaging barcodes...

Despite deep uncertainties in the global oil market, a firm in Indiana says it intends to invest hundreds of millions...

A recyclable, recycled-content polyester material has been developed for automotive components, and a high-molecular-weight PLA could replace PP in packaging....

Montreal-based Loop Industries is working to commercialize its heatless, pressureless PET depolymerization technology after raising millions of dollars from investors...

Montreal-based Loop Industries is working to commercialize its heatless, pressureless PET depolymerization technology after raising millions of dollars from investors...

The PET recycling rate is increasing in South Africa, and a PVC recycling program in the U.K. gets kudos. Austria:...

A major U.K. plastics-to-fuel company is one of 10 companies participating in Unreasonable Impact, a two-week accelerator program designed to...

Plastic bags are contributing to flooding in one Asian city, and a plastics-to-fuel facility is being planned in Australia. Bangkok:...