Solvay SA and Kobelco Eco-Solutions have signed a joint venture agreement with a view to set up an industrial unit of Solvay’s Vinyloop Polyvinyl Chloride recycling process in Japan, under the name ...

The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...

Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a familiar household chemical: acetic acid, the main ingredient in vinegar.

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

Washington, D.C., Sept. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Vinyl Institute (VI), a U.S. trade association representing the leading manufacturers of vinyl, is proud to support Plastic Back in its launch ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — While Eastman Chemical’s molecular recycling technology may have won company leaders the ears of ...

Ineos’s Inovyn polyvinyl chloride (PVC) business has started up two pilot plants at its R&D center in Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, Belgium, to test a solvent dissolution process for recycling PVC. Inovyn says ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have discovered a way to turn plastic waste into acetic acid, the main ingredient ...

The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern University chemists have introduced a new plastic upcycling process that can ...