By adding citric acid and squid ink to a cellulose-based polymer, researchers created a variety of structurally colored ...

Plastics are one of the largest sources of pollution on Earth, lasting for years on land or in water. But a new type of ...

Plastic bottles found to harm human health at every stage of their life cycle A new report says beverage companies like Coca-Cola must be “held accountable for the supply chain impacts of their ...

Over the course of evolution microorganisms have evolved pathways to break down many materials. The challenge with the many materials that we humans have created over just the past decades is that ...

Chemists at the University of Colorado Boulder are developing the future of recycling polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a common type of plastic found in packaging and soda bottles. The method reli… ...

PET plastics have a recycling capacity of about 21 percent and HDPE plastics have a rate of about 10 percent. ... dyes and colorants and must be separated. For example, ...

Recycling PET thermoforms has potential, but is facing a number of challenges, according to a three-person panel discussion Oct. 26 at the Society of Plastics Engineers Thermoforming Conference in ...

PET is a unique material, but with PETek colorants and a three custom carrier system formulation, it's the clear choice to achieve superior part aesthetics. Color Concentrates for PET | Plastics ...

The German plastics recycling company TM Recycling, has invested about €10 million ($13.4 million) to build a new PET plastics recycling facility.Construction of the plant is associated with the ...

Led by Kohei Oda, a microbiologist at the Kyoto Institute of Technology, the team found that the microbe Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6 can use PET plastic—a polymer widely used in beverage bottles ...

The synthetic metabolic process they designed converts nearly 100% of PET-derived substrates into the world’s most commonly used painkiller, acetaminophen, also called paracetamol in many parts ...

Adding color to a plastic product can be a complex task. Even if you are completely familiar with plastic products colored in numerous tonalities, hues, or effects, this process demands several ...