Recycling bin filled with plastic bottles emphasizes waste management and environmental awareness. Image in public domain.

Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, ...

Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a ...

The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo report a sunlight-driven process that uses single-atom iron anchored to a support ...

Plastic to possibilities ...

In this world, plastic is the most stubborn waste. Normally, the plastic waste gets disposed of via municipal collection, ...

The chemical industry produced about 14 million metric tons of acetic acid worldwide in 2017 for use as a reagent to make monomers and other compounds, as well as for use in the medical and food ...

FOR ACETIC ACID producers, China has become the main operating theater. Multiple acetic acid plants have just started production there or are about to. Demand for the ubiquitous chemical has been ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Acetic Acid Market (2016-2022)" report to their offering. The global supply of acetic acid was 12.41 MMT in 2016 ...

New York, Jan. 07, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global acetic acid market is forecast to reach USD 21.65 Billion by 2027, according to a new report by Reports and Data. The growing use of acetic acid ...

What if plastic waste could be turned into something useful? That dream may soon become a reality, as scientists have found a way to turn plastic into acetic acid using sunlight. Plastics and ...