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 ...

Chemists have developed a catalytic process that turns the largest component of today's plastic waste stream, polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that are ...

University of Adelaide researchers have detailed how solar-driven photoreforming can convert plastic waste into hydrogen and other valuable chemicals at low temperatures. The process uses ...

image: Scott Svadlenak, right, and Kostas Goulas discuss possible reaction mechanisms for the PVC to waxes process. Photo by Johanna Carson. view more CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers in the Oregon State ...

Researchers at the University of Adelaide have demonstrated a solar-driven photoreforming process that converts plastic waste into hydrogen and other valuable chemicals. The method uses ...

MEXICO CITY (Oct. 20, 1:15 p.m. ET) — Spanish molecular oriented PVC pipe maker and technology provider Molecor Tecnologia SL is eyeing the Americas as it seeks to expand across the world. The company ...

Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers. A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics ...