Only a small percentage of plastic bags and other polyethylene packaging is recycled because only low-value products can be made from this waste. Chemists have created a catalytic process that ...

The days of dumping trash into overcrowded landfills may be over. Just as you would not dump gold, diamonds, or hundred dollar bills into garbage bins, you soon will hesitate to throw out your plastic ...

Researchers in India have developed a relatively low-temperature process to convert certain kinds of plastic waste into liquid fuel as a way to reuse discarded plastic bags and other products.

Besides climate change, which is mostly the result of our carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions, plastic pollution stands as one of the most critical environmental concerns of this decade. The sheer ...

BOCA DEL RIO, Mexico — A startup in Mexico is trying to help get a handle on one Gulf coast city’s plastic waste problem by converting it into gasoline, diesel and other fuels. With less than 10% of ...

The worldwide accumulation of plastic waste in oceans, lakes, landfills, and rivers is the foremost concern of environmentalists. One of the main factors associated with plastic pollution is the lack ...

A joint research team led by Dr. Sang-Goo Jeon from the Bioenergy and Resources Upcycling Research Laboratory at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) and Dr. Jung-Oh Ahn from the BioProcess ...

A start-up in Mexico is trying to help get a handle on one coastal city’s plastic waste problem by converting it into gasoline, diesel and other fuels. With less than 10 percent of the world’s ...

A start-up in Mexico is trying to help get a handle on one Gulf Coast city’s plastic waste problem by converting it into gasolene, diesel and other fuels. With less than 10 per cent of the world’s ...