Biodegradable plastics, such as polylactic acid (PLA), were introduced as an alternative. However, PLA takes too long to ...

Nova Chemicals has opened a major plastic film recycling plant in Indiana that will produce 150 million pounds of post-consumer recycled polyethylene resin per year.

Plastic bags are made through a process that starts with raw materials such as polyethylene pellets ... heated and melted into a uniform plastic sheet. The plastic is then shaped, cut, and ...

While it resembles high density polyethylene with regard to its mechanical properties and solid-state structure and has a high melting point (Tm=96 °C), the novel polyester-2,18 material at the ...