This approach is far more carbon- and energy-efficient than conventional methods, according to the researchers.

Plastic has become a ubiquitous part of modern life—in water bottles, shopping bags and car dashboards. But once discarded, ...

Polyurethane plastics are ubiquitous, used everywhere from mattresses to shoes. But once these products are no longer wanted, these materials litter landfills and oceans across the world. William ...

New research offers a method to convert mixed plastic waste into clean hydrogen fuel. The innovative technique allows for the ...

Our whole system is built to reward recyclability. But what actually matters is how much we’re manufacturing in the first ...

Although many Americans deposit their plastic trash into the appropriate bins each week, many of those materials, including flexible films, multilayer materials and a lot of colored plastics, are not ...

Order and disorder of bubbles in a surface foam. Image by Kempf EK – Own work, CC BY 4.0. By using ‘green catalysts’, Northwestern University researchers have succeeded in breaking down and rebuilding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alterra's liquefaction plant in Akron, Ohio, uses pyrolysis as its chemical recycling process to manufacture new plastics. The ...

Researchers have developed a process that may help advance plastic waste recycling. A team of scientists from the University of Pittsburgh have optimized a low-cost process called pyrolysis to ...

Plans for a plastic film recycling facility in Darlington have been approved, with developers saying the project could create ...

After the scheme collapsed in 2022, many Australians were left wondering what to do with their bread bags, chip packets and cling wrap. The good news? A new national soft plastics recycling scheme is ...