Polyethylene waste could be a thing of the past
From University of Adelaide 13/12/23 An international team of experts undertaking fundamental research has developed a way of using polyethylene waste (PE) as a feedstock and converted it into valuable chemicals, via light-driven photocatalysis. The University of Adelaide’s Professor Shizhang Qiao, Chair of Nanotechnology, and Director, Centre for Materials in Energy and Catalysis, at the […]
No sex please – marine life turned off by swimming in plastic chemicals
From University of Portsmouth 08/12/23 Plastic waste in the water might be stopping – or interrupting – some shrimp-like creatures from reproducing. In a unique study, the ability of ‘shrimp like’ creatures to reproduce successfully was found to be compromised by chemicals found in everyday plastics. Research showed that little critters, known as marine amphipod […]
Plastic production via advanced recycling lowers GHG emissions
From DOE/Argonne National Laboratory 07/11/23 Producing new plastic by advanced recycling of post-use plastic (PUP), instead of fossil-based production, can reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and increase the U.S. recycling rate, according to research by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. The peer-reviewed life cycle analysis study appears in the November 2023 […]