Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have successfully transformed common plastic waste into a high-value precursor for Parkinson’s disease medication.

University of Edinburgh researchers have used bacteria to break down plastic waste and turn it into a Parkinson's drug, advancing a new approach known as "bio-upcycling".

(Krisanapong Detraphiphat/Moment/Getty Images) Scientists have found a new way to make a Parkinson's drug – out of old plastic. The plastic is polyethylene terephthalate (or PET), widely used in ...

In a new study, scientists from the universities of Portsmouth and Manchester report that a specially engineered enzyme can ...

Despite polyethylene terephthalate (PET) being one of the most widely recycled plastics, only about 20% of used PET bottles ...

The enzymatic degradation of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) represents a significant advance in addressing the growing challenge of plastic waste. This process involves specialised enzymes, known as ...

Researchers have developed electrochemical methods that break down waste PET plastic, the material in most disposable water ...

Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...

A team of students from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy investigated whether recycling facilities could effectively sort plastics by the sounds they ...

We ingeniously changed the traditional solid-phase precursor to liquid-phase precursor in the process of carbonizing waste polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which not only formed more intrinsic carbon ...

UB researchers want to provide regulators and others a quick and reliable way to assess sustainability claims.