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IRONTON — Operating since June 2023, PureCycle Technologies in Ironton is the only facility in the world that can turn post-consumer polypropylene back into Ultra-Pure Recycled resin with virgin-like ...

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Chemists have developed a catalytic process that turns the largest component of today's plastic waste stream, polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that are ...

Big brands like Procter & Gamble and Nestlé say a new generation of plants will help them meet environmental goals, but the technology is struggling to deliver. Big brands like Procter & Gamble and ...

Starbucks customers across hundreds of locations in the United States started their weeks off with a surprise: Their beloved Frappuccinos and iced espresso drinks served in paper cups, not plastic.

Research at West Virginia University is exploring whether microwave technology can recover high yields of propylene from polypropylene plastic scrap. Research by Yuxin Wang (pictured) at West Virginia ...

The Seattle-based coffee company announced this week that about 580 of its stores had begun replacing its cold drinks cups — typically made out of polypropylene, a type of rigid plastic — with paper ...

Plastic is everywhere. From water bottles and food containers to household items and packaging, modern life depends heavily ...

Why it matters: All that packaging we've treated as disposable may finally be reborn. Researchers have cracked the code for turning plastic back into the building blocks to make new plastics. It could ...

Starbucks customers across hundreds of locations in the United States started their weeks off with a surprise: Their beloved Frappuccinos and iced espresso drinks served in paper cups, not plastic.