Recycling bin filled with plastic bottles emphasizes waste management and environmental awareness. Image in public domain.

The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...

Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a ...

The Finnish company says it has commissioned the world’s largest upgrading facility for liquefied plastic scrap, helping it to scale up chemical recycling.

Polypropylene and polyethylene are two durable and affordable plastics commonly used as packaging materials, snack wrappers, ...

Neste has processed liquefied waste plastic (e.g. pyrolysis oil) since 2020. The construction of the new upgrading facility and its integration to the existing oil refinery began in 2023 and was ...

Chemists and innovative recyclers are trying to turn gloves, pipette tips, and other laboratory plastic waste into something useful ...

A successful collaboration involving a trio of research institutions has yielded a roadmap toward an economically viable process for using enzymes to recycle plastics. Subscribe to our newsletter for ...

The fire burning, the banjo playing, the stories, and the sweet aromatic smell of grains; there might not be anything more Americana than the moonshiner, risking it all to provide their families some ...

Sorting plants in recycling usually do not recognize black plastic, which is why it is sorted out instead of being recycled.

Samsara Eco plans to tailor microscopic organisms to retrieve materials from electronic waste.