Polyethylene plastics -- single-use bags and general-purpose bottles -- are indestructable forever plastics. That also makes them hard to recycle. Chemists have found a way to break down the polymer - ...

Three firms team up to make lighter HDPE bottles using injection stretch blow molding with special copolymer additive.

Polyethylene plastics — in particular, the ubiquitous plastic bag that blights the landscape — are notoriously hard to recycle. They’re sturdy and difficult to break down, and if they’re recycled at ...

Researchers develop a one-pot, low temperature catalytic method to turn polyethylene polymers into alkylaromatic molecules. When we started using plastics about 70 years ago, not much thought -- if ...

Plastics normally bound for the landfill are getting a new life from California startup Novoloop. The company upcycles polyethylene, a plastic that’s widely used but rarely recycled. With $11 million ...

People around the world use more than a trillion plastic bags every year. They're made of a notoriously resilient kind of plastic called polyethylene that can take decades to break down. But the ...

Snyder poly plastic utility enclosures are made using the High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) Plastic Resin with a UV 8 sun protectant stabilizer. Snyder poly plastic utility enclosures are made using ...

Is the real solution to our rapidly growing mountains of plastic trash lurking in the guts of the caterpillars that we feed to our pet birds and lizards? Plastic trash is everywhere, and since it has ...

The time of wooden cutting boards is long gone. They sure had a moment, but we are in the era of plastics now, and they seem to have taken over kitchens everywhere. This may be for good reason, too.