California has hailed itself as a leader in single-use plastic reduction and legislation. But a scuttling of its pioneering ...

As one of the most commonly used plastics in the world, polypropylene presents a global environmental problem because of issues related to its recycling. Researchers have developed a new way of ...

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 ...

Do resins have personal histories? In a way, they do. Maybe not the stuff of novels or Netflix documentaries, but they tell stories. Consulting firm C-MACC of Houston recently took a closer look at ...

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