Biodegradable plastics: New insights to create better products
Plastics labelled as ‘home compostable’ all too frequently do not degrade as intended. Now, new research is digging deeper into our compost bins to find out why that might be. And the insights are shedding light on how to design better biodegradable plastics. Jon Evans reports
Ammonia outlook: New options for scaleable production
The Haber-Bosch process remains the standard way to make ammonia – but could it be replaced with one of many emerging ‘low carbon’ processes? Lou Reade reports
Carbon for chemicals: The groundbreaking Flue2Chem project
A ground-breaking collaboration across the materials supply chain has shown how feedstocks from captured CO2 can help reduce the carbon footprint of the chemical industry. Steve Ranger looks at the impact of the groundbreaking Flue2Chem project.