Pictured here, Guoliang Liu and Zhen Xu upcycled polystyrene waste by exposing it to UV light and adding an organic compound called dichloromethane to produce a valuable chemical called ...

Engineers have modelled a new way to recycle polystyrene that could become the first viable way of making the material reusable. The team of chemical engineers, based at the University of Bath in ...

Guoliang Liu at Virginia Tech and his colleagues have developed a method to break down polystyrene and convert it into a chemical that is far more valuable. The process is energy efficient and ...

Polycarbonate/polystyrene (PC/PS) blend nanorods with various diameters were prepared by melt-wetting porous anodic aluminum oxide templates with partially miscible ...

Chemical recycling might offer help. Depolymerization can break down polyester and polystyrene into their raw materials for conversion back into new polymers. And pyrolysis can turn mixed plastic ...

(Willy Kurniawan/Reuters) That's the difference with Pyrowave's technology — it uses a "chemical recycling" process to take waste polystyrene and generate brand-new styrofoam. Microwaves heat ...

Polystyrene foam is still being sold in the ... In December, representatives from the plastic, packaging and chemical recycling industry urged the governor to abandon the regulations, suggesting ...

This is far bigger than the previous record-holder, polystyrene polymers that were only 40 million hydrogen atoms. Still, it’s only a fraction of the molecular weight of DNA. New Scientist ...

"Polystyrene is completely misunderstood," Vaillancourt says. "It is the highest utility polymer ever created and the most compatible with today's chemical recycling process." ...