A Northampton County company has come up with a way to divert old plastic from cars away from landfills and back into vehicles. Reusing metal from vehicles has been common practice for decades. Steel ...

"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 ...

Portland, Pa.-based Ultra-Poly Corp. and the Plastics Industry Association have developed a process to collect and recycle plastic automotive bumper covers in a way that is "economically feasible" for ...

Polyethylene is the most abundantly manufactured plastic in the world. Due to properties like durability, it has many diverse, and even long-term uses. Chemists have now incorporated polar groups in ...

Portland, Pennsylvania-based Ultra-Poly Corp. has worked with the Plastics Industry Association on a project to collect and recycle thermoplastic polyolefin (TPO) plastic automobile bumper covers. The ...

Today’s plastic grocery bag could be tomorrow’s high-tech track suit, thanks to fabric made from polyethylene—the same polymer that is used to make plastic wrap. Analyses suggest that the fabric could ...

March 15 (UPI) --Scientists have developed a new strategy for turning plastic into wearable textiles. The breakthrough -- described Monday in the journal Nature Sustainability -- could help ease Earth ...

Re-Poly LLC, a plastics reprocessor based in St. Louis, has been purchased by GP-Plastics Holdings LLC, a subsidiary of Granite Peak Development, Casper, Wyoming, and renamed Granite Peak Plastics.

The year saw recycled polyester stalled, while cotton held value-though forensic DNA tracking redrew the line between claims ...

Researchers develop a one-pot, low temperature catalytic method to turn polyethylene polymers into alkylaromatic molecules. When we started using plastics about 70 years ago, not much thought -- if ...