Waste conversion. A process that converts end-of-life plastics into carbon nanotubes is the subject of a patent application from Trimtabs Ltd. of Swansea, Wales. The patent application points out ...

A radical new process “vaporizes” plastic bags and bottles to help make recycled materials. American scientists say the innovative chemical procedure turns ubiquitous waste items into hydrocarbon ...

The injection blow moulding process is a key conventional process that enables the production of hollow plastic parts from a pre-moulded semi-finished piece, commonly referred to as a preform. It ...

There are essentially three widely used technologies for manufacturing plastic products: Injection molding, extrusion, and blow molding. Injection molding is the most commonly used process for the ...

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 - ...

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 ...

LOVELAND, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--X2F, the developer of a transformative plastics processing technology, announced today a key technical personnel appointment as the company accelerates its ...

A new way of chemically recycling single-use plastics might offer an incentive to keep them out of landfills. Ivan Radic via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 New research may offer a way to keep single-use ...

Honeywell, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, says it has commercialized a process that expands the types of plastics that can be recycled, producing feedstock that enables manufacturing ...

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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 ...