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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

(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 ...

It’s made up of up a series of linked, repeating chemical units called styrenes. Polystyrene is not very chemically reactive, and breaking it down with industrial recycling methods that break ...

Results from a new animal study suggest that microscopic plastic particles found in food and beverages may affect glucose ...