This innovative process can effectively vaporize the most common types of plastic waste. Subsequently, it turns common plastic waste into useful materials for making new plastics.

[Precious Plastic Torino] ... Worse, it doesn’t take a huge industrial process to melt down a lot of this plastic and reuse it, you can do it at home if you were so inclined.

If you ask Mattia Bernini, plastic is not the problem; it’s how many plastic products are made.. Bernini is Design Director at Precious Plastic — a free, open-source, plastic-recycling system based on ...

The process is designed to degrade two of the most common types of post-consumer plastic waste: polyethylene and polypropylene. Polyethylene is widely used in single-use plastic bags, while ...

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 ...

Most people who separate their plastic waste for recycling assume the bulk of it will in fact be recycled. But current ...

Now, his team has discovered an improved process that works on both polyethylene, from which most plastic bags are made, and polypropylene, which is used to make harder objects, and it relies only ...

Witnessing the mounting plastic pollution crisis, he decided to embrace Precious Plastic and start his business venture, PPM, with an initial investment of RM80,000.

If the process can be scaled, it could not only reduce the number of petrochemical-derived plastics but also bioplastics that are made from valuable resources such as sugar cane, corn, and yeast.

UC Berkeley researchers develop process to recycle plastics indefinitely 02:53. A new process to recycle existing plastics indefinitely and reduce the flood of plastics into landfills is being ...