chemistry

Waste-to-Chemical: Chemistry in the Service of Circularity

Plasmix, SRF, non-recoverable demolition waste, garden waste and cuttings, medical waste, and biomass residues: in the world of waste, there are many examples of materials that cannot be easily reus...

Alien Entities: How Chemical Pollution Threatens the Global Ecosystem

Since 2009, the Planetary Boundaries have been one of the most effective displays of the main drivers of global ecosystem crises, their “progress”, and their interconnections. In this fr...

The Circular Economy in the Chemical Industry

Circular economy means taking a regenerative approach to resource usage, in order to meet the needs of all 8 billion people on the planet. The Ellen Mac Arthur Foundation’s butterfly diagram r...

The Periodic Table

Those who have never closely observed the periodic table of the elements, conceived in 1869 by the Russian chemist Dmitry Ivanovič Mendeleev, have little grasp of the reality they cross in the shor...