The mechanical properties and behaviour of paper materials are dictated by their complex microstructure and anisotropic nature, which arise from the interwoven network of cellulose fibres and the ...

Since plastic packaging accounts for a large fraction of plastic waste, the demand for environmentally friendly packaging ...

Using cellulose nanofibers from wood, researchers have made paper that can be tuned using a slow heat treatment to be effective semiconductors, some almost as conductive as metals (ACS Nano 2022, DOI: ...

Hillsborough County's Naughty and Nice list of recyclable materials, circa Dec. 2024. After the rush of opening gifts with friends and family has ended, the only thing left is to clean up and discard ...

This week, the NextGen Consortium — an industry collaboration managed by Closed Loop Partners aimed at eliminating single-use foodservice packaging waste by advancing the design, commercialization and ...

Technology provider says GAINnext can use deep learning to reduce impurities in sorted and recycled paper and plastic grades. Tomra says its GAINnext paper cleaning application “uses deep learning ...

While the relevance of paper cup recycling continues to grow, most cups still end up landfilled today, and the NextGen Consortium, a multiyear consortium managed by New York-based Closed Loop Partners ...