TECHNOLOGIES
TOPSTORY
How Metals Help Bring New Life to Plastic Waste
How Metals Help Bring New Life to Plastic Waste
A research team at ETH Zurich is developing methods for the chemical breakdown of plastics using ruthenium.
NEWS
ANALYSES, BACKGROUND, INTERVIEWS
Rare Earths for Clean Oceans
Nylon-6 plastic pollutes the environment for thousands of years - researchers develop catalyst to break it down without toxic residues and even recover it.
How Gallium Could Make the Chemical Industry Greener
Scientists develop liquid catalyst that could save energy and CO2 emissions in numerous production processes.
Critical Raw Materials: How Project BEAR is Supposed to Help
Universities cooperate in the extraction of raw materials from secondary sources.
Rare Earths: Chinese Researchers Develop More Environmentally Friendly Mining Method
Instead of chemicals, electric currents may help mine the valuable raw materials.
