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.

To tackle the growing pollution crisis, scientists at RIKEN in Japan have developed a new type of plastic that remains stable ...

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 ...

Polyethylene has a number of advantageous properties, but biodegradability is not one of them. A team of researchers has now developed a plastic which has similar thermoplastic properties to ...

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

The global wood plastic composite (WPC) floorings industry size is to be worth USD 2.23 billion in 2023. The market is to develop at a 7.0% CAGR from 2023 to 2033, reaching USD 4.19 billion by 2033.

Moreover, the discovery could help to alleviate the global problem of plastic waste ... plastics made of polyethylene, according to the team. The researchers placed a sheet in seawater swarming ...