A new way of converting stubborn plastic waste into high-value chemicals using only water and oxygen has been developed by an ...

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

A process called Alkaline Thermal Treatment (ATT) has been tested to turn mixed plastic ...

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

One possible solution that’s emerged in recent years is advanced recycling. Advanced recycling, also called chemical ...

Plastic waste is a growing environmental and human health problem, and more effective recycling is fundamental for solving it, Vittorio Fattori, a food security officer at the United Nations' Food and ...

The Ocean Recovery Alliance, headquartered in Hong Kong, has released “Towards Circular Plastics: Assessing the Impact of Recycling Technologies in Tackling Plastic Pollution,” a report that assesses ...

China has developed a low-cost chemical technique to convert plastic waste into aviation fuel, addressing environmental ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

Plastic is one of the world’s most ubiquitous materials, essential to daily life as we know it. Production is growing at a rate of 3.4 percent—three times faster than our global population growth.

Questions remain about cleanup at the North Carolina site, which had been hailed as a solution for dealing with plastic waste ...