Chemical engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo have joined forces to take on a pressing environmental problem by using synthetic biology to turn plastic waste into valuable resources.

MES software is transforming medical plastics manufacturing by automating compliance and enabling real-time traceability.

Maria Ivanova is director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and co-director of the Plastics Center at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. When the United Nations ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory has engineered poplar trees to produce valuable chemicals that can be used to make ...

Unlike refusing a straw at a restaurant, it’s difficult to cut down on plastic while strapped unconscious to an operating table. Single-use plastic is facing more scrutiny than it ever has, and the ...

Tekni-Plex Inc. is shuttering most operations at an egg carton manufacturing plant in Dallas, costing 64 people their jobs on the day after Christmas. The workers will be permanently laid off Dec. 26 ...

Fratco, a manufacturer of corrugated plastic pipe, has officially broken ground on a new, state-of-the-art production facility in Fort Payne, AL. The location is the Indiana-based company’s first ...

Equipment maker Lindner and Procter & Gamble say their solvent-based Flexloop process can remove impurities from recycled polymer chains. The secondary resins obtained through Flexloop not only comply ...

Highway Holdings Limited, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells metal, plastic, electric, and electronic parts and components, subassemblies, and finished products in Hong Kong, China ...

BC's Global Observatory on Pollution and Health and an international team of researchers will survey health risks posed across the continuum of plastic production, use, and disposal The Global ...