Plastic bag manufacturing involves a highly efficient process, starting with polyethylene derived from natural gas or oil.

Explore the fascinating process of recycling plastic bottles, where old materials are given a new life through advanced techniques. From collection to cleaning, the process begins with gathering used ...

Plastics are hard to break down and can last for decades in nature, even under the harshest conditions. A new catalyst process has proven to be capable of rapidly converting waste plastic into ...

Car tires, replacement hip joints, bowling balls—these and other items are made from a class of plastics called thermosets, ...

Experiments are designed so that the student will understand the theory of polymer conversion techniques by the interaction between process variables and material characteristics. Pre-Req: PLAS 2150 ...

Plastics processing, including extrusion, injection molding, and novel processing techniques, Nanomanufacturing with polymers, including compounding and forming of polymer and rubber nanocomposites, ...

Last time we talked about a video that purported to do plastic welding, we mentioned that the process wasn’t really ... we aren’t sure all of the techniques qualify. That’s not to say ...

These techniques leverage differences in the physical and chemical properties of plastics to separate them ... Flotation Separation: A process that uses differences in the physical and chemical ...

Irradiating materials is no longer just a manufacturing tool, but also a recycling tool, so the ionizing radiation techniques used to modify polymers are relevant for plastic waste processing. Bin ...