Eurofins Sustainability Services says its new testing method for recycled plastics in textiles is more accurate than existing ...

Though very little polyester clothing currently gets recycled, the fiber is “a fantastic reversible polymer,” said Josse Kunst, a chemical engineer and the chief commercial officer at CuRe ...

CuRe’s process doesn’t break the polyester polymer right down into its monomer building blocks, but far enough to purify it, before reconstituting the polymer so it can be spun back into fibres.

That led the researchers to wonder whether their polymer—a polyester they had created to encapsulate and deliver proteins—might be similarly effective at clearing biofilms. When it turned out ...

Plastics, including polyester, are formed by taking individual chemicals called monomers and forming them into chains to create polymers. Essentially, Reju’s process breaks the polyester down ...