Unlocking Plastic Recycling Since their widespread adoption by the manufacturing industry in the 1960s, plastics have become an omnipresent material in our daily lives. They are also the cause of very ...

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

Their experiments focused on soft polybutadiene, commonly found in rubber tires, and tough acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, used in products such as plastic toys ... These include epoxy resins, ...

When Toray Industries was looking for an overseas base to expand its production of plastics ... plant for acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and methyl methacrylate ABS (MABS) resins to evolve ...

In other experiments, they worked with tough acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, the stuff of plastic ... These materials include epoxy resins, vulcanized rubber, polyurethane, and silicone. Unlike other ...

North American PET bottle resin prices fell an average of 1 cent ... the Beverage Marketing Corp. consulting firm outlined how PET and other plastics have maintained a strong market share in ...

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 ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. The global plastics problem poses significant environmental, energy, and climate ...