US researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have found a new way to turn the world’s most common plastic waste into gasoline and diesel fuels. Polyethylene is a common polymer used in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic trash accumulates in trees and shrubs along the Los Angeles River. Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images ...

An illustration of the thermal treatment process for producing hydrogen. (Younghee Lee/CUBE3D Graphic) If a scientific ...

Production has fallen sharply, many factories are operating at less than half of their installed capacity, while some have temporarily suspended operations ...

Plastic waste is everywhere. Each year, around 400 million metric tons of it end up in landfills and places like oceans, rivers and shorelines. The trash breaks down into tiny pieces called ...

Our planet is choking on plastics. Some of the worst offenders, which can take decades to degrade in landfills, are polypropylene—which is used for things such as food packaging and bumpers—and ...

Scientists have developed a new chemical process that can convert mixed plastic waste into clean hydrogen fuel while permanently trapping most of its ...

It’s a killer pitch: Turn plastic waste into gasoline using only* the power of the sun. And that’s exactly what serial entrepreneur Julian Brown (@naturejab_ on Instagram) claims to be doing, using ...

UCLA and South Korean researchers found a way to turn plastic waste into pure hydrogen fuel, using a single reactor and zero ...

Author Beth Gardiner talks about her new book, 'Plastic Inc.' and about what she learned about the relationship between oil and gas companies and the plastics industry. Plastic is woven into pretty ...