Infrastructure and the Future of Plastic Recycling

By webmaster | December 15, 2023

It is common knowledge that less than 10% of all the plastics produced globally get recycled. Most of what does consists of post-industrial plastics that go to recyclers already sorted and cleaned. If we could figure out how to flip the numbers – to recycle 90% and dispose of 10% – how would all the…

UML Researchers Extract Green Hydrogen from Industrial Plastic Waste

By webmaster | March 28, 2023

A research team comprised of scientists from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell (UML) and the U.S. Army have developed a novel way to extract hydrogen from scrap plastic. Known as green hydrogen, the gas can be used as fuel for hydrogen fuel cells. Its only byproduct when burned is water vapor. Making their research even…

Plastic-Eating Worms Being Studied in Australia

By webmaster | July 6, 2022

We recently ran a blog post discussing a German research project involving an enzyme capable of breaking down PET plastic in record time. That story was amazing in and of itself. Now we learn of another project in Australia. This one involves plastic-eating worms that seem to thrive on polystyrene. Everywhere we look it seems…