The process is designed to degrade two of the most common types of post-consumer plastic waste: polyethylene and polypropylene. Polyethylene is widely used in single-use plastic bags, while ...

Two years ago, Hartwig and his UC Berkeley team came up with a process for breaking down polyethylene plastic bags into the monomer propylene — also called propene — that could then be reused to make ...

The process uses the recycled vapor to create new plastics. The post New process ‘vaporizes’ plastic waste to create recyclable materials appeared first on Talker.

In two studies, researchers present new ways to convert common waste plastics, polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP), into high-value chemical products, including alcohols, aldehydes ...

Process converts polyethylene bags, plastics to polymer building blocks Catalysts disassemble polymer while adding ethylene, producing propylene, the building blocks of polypropylene Date: October ...

A circular economy for plastics Polyethylene and polypropylene plastics constitute about two-thirds of post-consumer plastic waste worldwide.