With a new process, ENGEL makes it possible to process plastic waste as flakes in injection molding directly after grinding. Since pelletizing as a separate process step is eliminated, the innovation ...

Scientists invent process that converts plastic bottles into paracetamol, which is a common drugstore painkiller used in ...

With a new process, ENGEL makes it possible to process plastic waste as flakes in injection molding directly after grinding. Since a complete process step, pelletizing, is eliminated, the innovation ...

We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

Each manufacturing sector has a distinctive set of tools, processes, technologies, and challenges. These differences make it extremely difficult, costly, and time consuming for manufacturers to adapt ...

In the late 1940s, following wartime-driven innovation, the mass production of inexpensive plastics revolutionized American ...

While millions of tons of plastic are produced in the US each year, only around 9 percent is recycled, and that is largely due to the difficulties around reducing the material to useful building ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

Ottawa, Nov. 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global plastic processing machinery market size was valued at USD 26.28 billion in 2025, the market is projected to grow from USD 27.50 billion in 2026 to ...

PROVIDENCE – Nearly a year ago, state environmental regulators turned away a proposal to build a medical waste-to-energy plant in West Warwick that would use a high-heat process known as pyrolysis to ...

Researchers developed a plant based plastic that stays strong during use but dissolves safely in seawater, leaving no ...