Detroit — Plastic grocery bags seem to be everywhere, and they've become public enemy No. 1 to the general public. But a university professor explained research into how to convert bags into ...

"Polyethylene has a lower melting temperature so you don’t have to heat it up as much as other synthetic polymer materials to make yarn, for example," explained Boriskina. "Synthesis of raw ...

A textile firm in Turkey's prominent industrial center Bursa, south of Istanbul, daily produces five tons of yarn from plastic bottles, the firm's general director said on Wednesday. "As a result of ...

Scientists recently created textile fabrics made out of polyethylene – the polymer used in plastic grocery bags as well as many other everyday items – to reduce plastic pollution and make the fashion ...

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 ...

A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics that dominate the waste stream today and turn them into hydrocarbon building blocks for new plastics. The catalytic process, developed at the ...

TECNARO (Ilsfeld/Germany), BB Engineering (Remscheid/Germany), FALKE (Schmallenberg/Germany) and the Institut für ...

Up to 12.7 million tonnes of plastic waste is washed into the ocean each year. That's revolting. And while the onus is on each of us to reduce our single-use plastic habits, global manufacturing giant ...