Polyethylene plastics — in particular, the ubiquitous plastic bag that blights the landscape — are notoriously hard to recycle. They’re sturdy and difficult to break down, and if they’re recycled at ...
Middle East tensions disrupt global resin markets, creating supply shortages and soaring prices for PE and PP polymers.
UC Berkeley chemists have developed a new process, called isomerizing ethenolysis, to degrade polyethylene plastics, such as the milk bottle shown in the background, to propylene — the building block ...
Polyethylene plastics — in particular, the ubiquitous plastic bag that blights the landscape — are notoriously hard to recycle. They’re sturdy and difficult to break down, and if they’re recycled at ...
Polyethylene plastics -- single-use bags and general-purpose bottles -- are indestructable forever plastics. That also makes them hard to recycle. Chemists have found a way to break down the polymer - ...