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Virginia Tech scientists turn hard-to-recycle PVC into high-performance synthetic oil
There may also be an economic incentive to pursue the technology.
Plastic is one of the world’s most ubiquitous materials, essential to daily life as we know it. Production is growing at a rate of 3.4 percent—three times faster than our global population growth.
Four companies are receiving grants totaling almost $740,000 to help advance PVC recycling from the Vinyl Institute, a Washington-based trade group representing PVC resin producers. The funding comes ...
The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern University chemists have introduced a new plastic upcycling process that can ...
The Vinyl Institute of Canada (VIC), headquartered in Niagara Falls, Ontario, has announced Project Win-Finity, a national pilot program stewarded by the association and aimed at recycling ...
“The world’s commitment to ending plastic pollution is clear and undeniable,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), when the fifth negotiation session for an ...
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