BPF’s Philip Law discusses efforts to promote collaboration between the plastics industry and universities and foster innovation in sustainable plastics solutions.
The researchers not only succeeded in efficiently detecting microparticles in water, but also in identifying plastic particles and even gaining insights into the release of microparticles.
Being both innovative and sustainable in the chemical industry is a real challenge. Can new materials be synthesised without the use of solvents? Ana Mangas, researcher in Mechanochemistry and Reactive Extrusion at AIMPLAS.
Recon² – a not-for-profit start-up company out of the University of Manchester, UK – has partnered with On-Pack Recycling Label (OPRL) Ltd and a cohort of sustainability-focused companies to further develop a patent pending technology for...
Firm says the new state-of-the-art research and development facility to be used for customer collaboration and creating new applications as Asia remains a “strategic growth region.”
A 16-year-old schoolgirl from Johannesburg has created a superabsorbent polymer (SAP) made using orange peel and avocado skin in order to solve South Africa’s drought crisis.
