To determine the best way to recycle and reuse plastic, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) examined the benefits and trade-offs of current ...

Nearly 380 million tons of plastics are produced each year, and scientists estimate that by the year 2050 this number will rise to over 30 billion tons, according to a recent study by University of ...

Declining plastic recycling rates coupled with increased plastic pollution on the Earth’s surface and within its oceans spell concern for the planet’s health. In an effort to combat these trends, ...

Plastic pollution is one of the more pressing issues for conservationists and environmentalists alike. Researchers in Sweden harvested a byproduct of plastic disposal and used it to create a new ...

A Mexico-based tech company says it can recycle more than 90 percent of any type of plastic without using water. The new method also reduces costs by half without suffering any loss in quality, ...

This new technology could significantly improve recycling outcomes. Researchers make groundbreaking discovery that could ...

A catalytic strategy using tungsten- and sodium-based catalysts enables low-temperature conversion of polyethylene, polypropylene, and their mixtures into light olefins at 320 °C, recovering up to 95% ...

Almost 80% of plastic in the waste stream ends up in landfills or accumulates in the environment. Scientists have now developed a technology that converts a conventionally unrecyclable mixture of ...

The world has a plastic waste problem. That’s probably not news to you. Standard recycling programs can help, but a huge shortcoming with them is that so much plastic isn’t readily recyclable with ...