North American prices for polyethylene and polypropylene resins continued to drop as 2021 came to a close. Average selling prices for PE slid 5 cents per pound in December, while PP prices tumbled 15 ...

As one of the most commonly used plastics in the world, polypropylene presents a global environmental problem because of issues related to its recycling. Researchers have developed a new way of ...

Image courtesy Ohmega1982/freedigitalphotos.net. A surge in new plastics chemical capacity coming from low-cost producers in North America, the Middle East and China is driving an oversupply in the ...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and University of California, Santa Barbara researchers teamed with Dow to develop a breakthrough process to transform the most widely produced plastic — ...

Research at West Virginia University is exploring whether microwave technology can recover high yields of propylene from polypropylene plastic scrap. Research by Yuxin Wang (pictured) at West Virginia ...

The applications for post-consumer recycled, high-density polyethylene (HDPE) has been increasing steadily in recent years. As per the report published by the Association of Post-Consumer Plastic ...