Yet the oil industry plans to increase plastic production 40 percent over the next decade ... These plastic-making factories include ethane “cracker” and methanol plants, both which process natural ...

Furthermore, the alcohols and carboxylic acids produced during the biodegradation process can be used for plastic ...

Made of polymers repurposed from plastic waste ... and their efforts are turning the traditional plastics manufacturing and recycling process on its head. As chemists, material scientists and ...

IRG aims to convert post-consumer plastic into plastic resin that ... of the coke traditionally used in the steelmaking process. "Plastics production in and of itself is a threat to human health ...