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New chemical process breaks down 90% of plastic in just 30 minutes
11 Jul 2025 00:21 GMT
… New South Wales School of Chemical Engineering (UNSW), working with … fastest substrates, including poly(ethylene oxide) and poly(methyl … .
From trash to toolkit chemicals
Breaking chains is only half … , and sell it to chemical distributors. Haulers would cut …
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EWG lauds reintroduction of House food chemical safety review bill
10 Jul 2025 17:54 GMT
… health.”
The bill specifies the chemicals perchlorate, sodium benzoate, sodium nitrite … chloride, benzene and ethylene chloride.
Thousands of chemicals are added to food … the Environmental Protection Agency update chemical safety standards for pesticides, but …
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Overlooked and undervalued, the chemical industry needs attention
10 Jul 2025 10:58 GMT
… just lip service?
The chemical sector has been chronically … closure of SABIC’s ethylene cracker in Teesside. If … quite the opposite: new ethylene crackers are simply being built … action.
Government strategy sidelines chemicals
The government have decided that …
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NOVA Chemicals ordered to pay Dow additional CAD $1.6 billion
09 Jul 2025 18:09 GMT
… the pair’s jointly owned ethylene asset in Joffre, Canada. … 43 billion payment that NOVA Chemicals has already made to Dow … Chemicals being found to have failed to operate the jointly owned ethylene … resulted in a reduction in ethylene for Dow. Following an …
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Trump EPA move could allow chemical plants to bypass pollution limits, increasing cancer risk
08 Jul 2025 12:37 GMT
… , which targets emissions from 218 chemical facilities responsible for releasing known … 23% persistently out of compliance.
Ethylene oxide, a key target of … vulnerable to industrial toxins. Ethylene oxide, a chemical emitted by these plants …
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Danantara Indonesia to draw down $3bln from $10bln credit line, sources say
11 Jul 2025 08:14 GMT
… it for investments including a chemical plant and co-financings with … $800 million chlor-alkali and ethylene dichloride plant of petrochemical firm …
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How Plants Know When to Heal Themselves
10 Jul 2025 17:34 GMT
… blocks gas movement — causing ethylene (a plant hormone) to … the tissue is wounded, ethylene escapes and oxygen enters … Ethylene builds up, oxygen drops — and the plant receives a chemical … initially discovered the role of ethylene in regeneration. Then, in …
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Nanozymes for Accelerating the Foot Wound Healing: A Review
10 Jul 2025 09:20 GMT
… potential in the biomedical, chemical, industrial, food, agricultural, … biocompatibility, tunable physical and chemical properties, excellent biological activity … ), poly(vinyl alcohol-co-ethylene) (PVA-co-PE), … d,l-lactide)-poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(d,l …
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Experts sue to halt flow of likely carcinogen into drinking water supply: 'Has devastating consequences'
10 Jul 2025 08:26 GMT
… StarPet of illegally discharging the chemical 1,4-dioxane, contaminating drinking … polymers, which are made from ethylene glycol and terephthalic acid, both … reduce the release of the chemical, and there is evidence that …
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Auto enterprises to enjoy preferential import tariff policies
10 Jul 2025 05:47 GMT
… battery manufacturing, and advanced industrial chemicals.
The current 0% import duty … 0.94 or more; and Ethylene-alpha-olefin copolymers with a …