Northwestern University professor Yosi Kratish, an author of a recent paper, explains: "If we don't have an efficient way to ...

Scientists found a catalyst that turns waste plastic waste into cleaner fuel much faster than before, making the process more ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

Plastics are a pain. They are very useful during their product life but once disposed they don’t degrade naturally, and this creates huge problems in terms of waste disposal. Researchers in India have ...

Plastic waste is one of the biggest environmental issues today, but a German biotech startup, Biophelion, has developed a ...

Thermoset plastic recycling method. Thermoset plastic scrap deemed to be unrecyclable could be a new frontier in the circular economy in light of a new, continuous process patented by a Hong Kong ...

Panasonic has developed a recycling technique that uses titanium oxide to convert unrecoverable plastic and other organic compounds to a “harmless” gas. The key focus is on separating wires from their ...

While millions of tons of plastic are produced in the US each year, only around 9 percent is recycled, and that is largely due to the difficulties around reducing the material to useful building ...

In phase 1, specific microorganisms, like bacteria and fungi, colonize the surface of the plastic material. These microorganisms can either be present naturally in the environment or added ...

George told the second annual plastics, human health and solutions symposium in New York last week that plastic pollution is ...