But Adidas melts these pellets to create a filament, which is spun into what they call Ocean Plastic, a form of polyester yarn. Adidas uses Ocean Plastic to form the upper parts of shoes and ...

This report was first published by Inside Climate News. CHAPEL HILL — On a Friday afternoon in mid-January, college students ...

Mechanical recycling has long been used to recycle plastics. But by simply shredding and melting post-consumer waste into new pellets, its scale is limited — the process weakens the plastic over ...

This monstrosity will produce tens of millions of tons of plastic. Federal biologists warn that plastic pellets may spill into an important Texas estuary and harm endangered whooping cranes. Formosa ...

Scientists from the Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory of Tomsk Polytechnic University have developed fuel pellets with ...