The age of pre-sorting mixed plastic waste may soon be over. The secret weapon? A cheap catalyst made from nickel that ...

The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern ...

Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a groundbreaking nickel-based catalyst that could transform the way the ...

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / September 3, 2025 / Market inflection points are often hard to recognize until they’ve ...

A team of chemists may have found a way to solve the plastic recycling problem - and it starts with a little help from nickel ...

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / September 3, 2025 / For decades, the world has struggled to balance the economics of plastic ...

First, the mixed recyclables are shredded and crushed into smaller fragments, enabling more effective separation. The mixed fragments pass over rotating screens that remove cardboard and paper, ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

A team of chemists has discovered how to transform PET plastic waste into BAETA, a material that captures CO2 with remarkable ...

Disposable plastics have profoundly reshaped the way we eat, shop, raise children and understand hygiene and progress.

In the U.S., about 26-27 million tons of plastic were sent to landfills in 2018 and 2019, according to the EPA.