Over 27 million tons of single-use polystyrene packaging are produced worldwide each year, yet only 12% is recycled - most ...

The researchers say that policies to incentivize consumers to recycle polystyrene, or divert it from landfill, would help make the process even more economically attractive. More information ...

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Created Capacity To Make Styrene, Key Ingredient of One Kind of Synthetic Rubber. Now Styrene is Built Up To Polystyrene, Presenting Industry With Large Quantities of a Cheap and Versatile Plastic ...

Researchers from The University of Manchester are using polystyrene particles rather than expensive polymers to make the next generation of solar cells, which are used to make solar panels, more ...

A major obstacle to making the aviation industry sustainable could have just been overcome, thanks to a new study.<br /><br ...

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It turns out that the black plastic lid atop your coffee cup has a superpower. And the Stache Lab at Princeton Chemistry, which uncovered it, is exploiting that property to recycle at least two major ...

Can we turn it into other commodity chemicals that we have to make anyway? We have found that we can.” In their ACS paper, researchers showed that unmodified post-consumer black polystyrene samples ...