Nairobi, Kenya - It's a typical day in a Nairobi neighbourhood. As the sun beats down on dusty streets, children are playing and market traders are shouting out their best prices. As you walk past ...

These building blocks are as good as the building blocks ... opportunities for packaging manufacturers to access more recycled plastic for a wider variety of end-use applications.

Currently not all plastics can be recycled easily if at all ... that can commercially break down any waste PET plastic into its base building blocks called monomers. These can be repolymerized ...

Another issue is many mechanically recycled products are ... chemical recycling — meaning the plastic is stripped down to its fundamental building blocks, or monomers, and then refashioned ...

The world produces around 400 million tonnes of plastic each year of which only 9% is recycled. Plastic which does not decompose is a significant driver of climate change and has been found in the ...

KBR to assist Samsara Eco with the development of its first enzymatic recycling facility for plastics and textile ...

Instead of being discarded, plastics are sorted, cleaned, shredded and mixed with sand to make a solid block, transforming waste from a burden into a resource. Plastic-eating mealworms found in Kenya ...