by Plastics.com Staff | Jun 6, 2019 | Daily News, Environmental, North America, Polymer Science, Recycling
Flinders University — Many modern plastics, rubbers and ceramics cannot be recycled, but new polymers made from waste sulfur are promising to solve one of the planet’s biggest recycling problems – and even create new industries of the future. Researchers around the...
by Plastics.com Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | Daily News, Environmental, Global, Recycling
By Peter Murphy — March 23rd, 2019 — “Plastics… There’s a great future in plastics.” So said “Mr. McGuire” to Dustin Hoffman’s character, Ben Braddock, in The Graduate. Indeed, Mr. McGuire was prescient. In more than half a century since he gave his succinct advice,...
by Plastics.com Staff | Mar 8, 2019 | Daily News, Mergers & Acquisitions, North America, Recycling
Washington, D.C. — Resource Recycling, Inc., which produces a number of recycling trade publications and conferences, has been acquired by the Association of Plastic Recyclers. APR, headquartered in Washington, D.C., closed on the sale of Resource Recycling on March...
by Plastics.com Staff | Mar 4, 2019 | Daily News, North America, Polymer Science, Recycling
GreenBiz Group — Adapted from the VERGE Weekly newsletter, published Wednesdays. When it comes to innovation, Google’s parent Alphabet probably wins the headline race, but IBM has it way beat when it comes to racking up U.S. patents. In early January, the 107-year-old...
by Plastics.com Staff | Mar 1, 2019 | Daily News, North America, Polymer Science, Recycling
NREL — Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered a method of plastics upcycling—transforming discarded products into new, high-value materials of better quality and environmental value—that could...
