An innovative new adhesive, derived from purified and refined industrial bio-waste, should enable 90 percent of engineered wood products, such as furniture and construction boards, to become fully ...

Plastics are key components of virtually any modern technology, but the properties that make them so useful degrade with repeated mechanical recycling. Depolymerizing polymers back to monomers would ...

Municipal waste last year amounted to 353,525 tonnes, up by 20,287 tonnes, or 6.1 per cent over 2023, the National Statistics Office said. The highest increases by waste type were recorded in ...

Bio-PE is derived from biological sources like sugarcane instead of petroleum. The manufacturing process begins with extracting ethanol from sugarcane, which is then dehydrated to produce ethylene, ...

What types of new plastics can be developed with enhanced recycling capabilities? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of researchers at Cornell University have ...