"UMass Lowell is among the nation's leading centers for plastics technology, and its Plastics Engineering program...is helping to push new boundaries of how these versatile materials are used, ...

Discussions by organizations promoting a circular, cradle-to-cradle, sustainable plastics economy often address packaging and single-use materials, not engineering plastics and polymers. That's ...

Edtor's note: This is the first article in a three-part series surveying the careers landscape within the plastics industry. The following articles, focusing on equipment operators and operations ...

Modern society's reliance on fossil fuel extends past its use as an energy source with by-products used in everything from plastics to lubricants and fertilizers. Seeking alternatives that are cleaner ...

The Engineering Center is the first building on the CU Boulder campus to become 100% plastic-free for single-use beverage containers. The College of Engineering and Applied Science strives to lead the ...

The steel skeletons in our reinforced concrete buildings share a fatal flaw: corrosion. As water seeps in through microcracks ...

The breakthrough is the latest in a series of tantalizing research results hinting that certain enzymes and microbes might pave a way to degrade mountains of plastics scrap. Scientists at the U.S.

Transforming Plastic Waste into Fuel Plastic waste poses a significant challenge, as it is not easily disposed of and ...

Adelaide University researchers use sunlight to convert plastic waste into hydrogen and clean fuels via photoreforming.