Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic ends up in landfills every year, and even the small percentage of plastic that gets recycled can’t last forever. But our group of materials ...

Discover how the Thermo Scientific TM Process TM 11 and Process TM 16 extruders can aid in mechanical polymer recycling by helping define the optimal workflow and recycling parameters. Why is it ...

The PRecycling project aims to recover high-quality polymeric materials enabling up to 100% recycled content incorporation in ...

To upcycle the polymers of discarded plastics, chemists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory invented a way to generate new macromolecules with more valuable properties than those of the starting material ...

The growing demand for solutions to plastic pollution helps explain why recent successes at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have garnered media attention. In addition, ORNL’s patented technologies for ...

“The world’s commitment to ending plastic pollution is clear and undeniable,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), when the fifth negotiation session for an ...

ORNL’s invention may change plastic’s environmental fate by rearranging polymeric building blocks to customize the properties ...

Recycling plastics may have just gotten as simple as flipping a switch, thanks to scientists from Eindhoven University of Technology. The school reported on the study, recently published in the ...

Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic ends up in landfills every year, and even the small percentage of plastic that gets recycled can't last forever. But our group of materials ...