Upcycling may help remedy the roughly 450 million tons of plastic discarded worldwide annually, of which only nine per cent ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a groundbreaking method to upcycle plastic waste into new, high-quality materials with better properties ...

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology has come up with a way to make BFR-contaminated plastic recycling safer. Using a mixture of 1-propanol and heptane, the process dissolves and removes BFRs from ...