A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most "recyclable" objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected in huge volumes. Yet even for this item, the reality of recycling is messy: ...
By converting plastic waste into a microbe-friendly food source, scientists have built an upcycling pipeline that turns the waste into a variety of useful products. The findings are detailed in the ...
In a research project that has real implications for their regular laboratory work, a pair of physicists at Brown University ...
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have successfully developed advanced modeling tools that ...