A team of materials scientists and engineers at ETH Zurich has developed a light-triggered chemical process for breaking down ...

To make the circular economy successful at scale, it is essential to drive efforts with science and facts rather than emotions.

A new discovery offers a promising way to break down stubborn plastics like Plexiglass into their original building blocks, ...

Acrylic polymers such as poly (methyl methacrylate)—the plastic used in Plexiglas—are durable materials with a huge variety of commercial applications. But the all-carbon backbones that give these ...

By 2034, the Paris-based "materials regeneration" firm plans to be a $2 billion business with an estimated 20 "megafactories" ...

Researchers have reported a method for breaking down commercial polymers like Plexiglass into monomers, a form more desirable for reuse. This could help alleviate the growing plastic waste stream.

A research team has introduced an innovative solution for the depolymerization of polyethylene terephthalate (PET). This ...