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  • Plastic Nanoparticles Detrimental to Sea Life
    News - 21 Sep 2012
    Plastic nanoparticles in oceans seem to have a damaging effect on sea life. Called as ‘plastic soup,’ this occurs when plastic debris entering the sea decomposes. Plastic nanoparticles...
  • Solar-Driven Technology Converts Plastic Into Fuel
    News - 13 Jan 2023
    Plastics pose one of the largest environmental problems of the present day, and developing new methods to recycle or reuse this ubiquitous material is considered imperative to preserve both the...
  • Chemical Coding and a Legal Net to Combat Plastic Pollution
    News - 21 Nov 2022
    A transdisciplinary team of QUT researchers has proposed an innovative strategy to address the global plastic pollution crisis using a combination of plastics encoded like DNA, and international...
  • Chemical Recycling Ensures Multiple Lifetimes for Plastic Materials
    News - 27 Sep 2022
    In the not-too-distant future, the plastics in our cars, electronics, and satellites might exist in their second, 25th, or 250th lives. Chemistry chair Wei Zhang (right) and Graduate Research...
  • Seagrass Helps to Eliminate Plastics from Coastal Areas
    News - 15 Jan 2021
    A new study has reported that Posidonia oceanica seagrass—a kind of endemic marine phanerogam that plays a crucial ecological role in the marine environment—can trap and eliminate plastic...
  • Microplastics can be Released by Just Opening a Plastic Bottle
    News - 20 Mar 2020
    Image Credit: nito / Shutterstock.com Scientists at the University of Newcastle, Australia, have discovered that microplastics are released just by the action of opening a plastic bottle. These...
  • Tips to Keep Plastic Debris from Reaching Fish that We Consume
    News - 26 Sep 2016
    When you eat fish, it may contain tiny pieces of plastic. And without even knowing it, you may be adding to the plastic pollution that is washing into oceans and winding up in the fish we...
  • 3D Imaging Could Transform Plastic Recycling
    News - 6 Sep 2024
    Researchers from the University of Waterloo, in collaboration with the National Research Council (NRC), have made a significant advancement by using 3D imaging to study microplastics in unprecedented...
  • Chemical Plastics Recycling is Ready To Go
    News - 2 Sep 2024
    Hundreds of millions of tonnes of plastic waste are generated worldwide every year. Scientists are working tirelessly on new methods to recycle a large proportion of this waste into high-quality...
  • A Groundbreaking Solution to the Issue of Plastic Waste
    News - 2 Sep 2024
    A study led by Tokyo Metropolitan University professor Kotohiro Nomura and published in Industrial Chemistry and Materials describes how to depolymerize PET (polyethylene terephthalate) using alcohols...

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