Photocatalysis 'allows abundant and free solar energy to break down plastic pollution'. | Credit: Illustration by Marian Femenias-Moratinos / What if plastic waste could be turned into something ...

A radical new process “vaporizes” plastic bags and bottles to help make recycled materials. American scientists say the innovative chemical procedure turns ubiquitous waste items into hydrocarbon ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have discovered a way to turn plastic waste into acetic acid, the main ingredient ...

A new solar-driven method transforms plastic waste and microplastics into acetic acid, turning pollution into a valuable chemical.

Dr. Byungwook Hwang’s research team from the CCS Research Department at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has successfully developed a process that applies the circulating fluidized bed ...

Note: Eastman Chemical Company’s first “molecular recycling” facility is now fully operational in Kingsport. It uses a process called methanolysis to reduce hard-to-recycle waste plastic to its ...

Solutions to the plastic waste crisis are often pitched using words that can skew value judgments, new research argues. The ...

Researchers found a way to turn plastic waste into the main ingredient in vinegar using sunlight and a simple iron based material.

A$11.2m in joint federal and NSW funding will expand facilities to process hard-to-recycle plastics, including soft plastics ...

Humans generate a lot of plastic waste – more than 400 million metric tons a year. Plastic products have been propelling our quality of life forward for over a century, from keeping food fresh longer ...

Waste Energy Corp. is opening a facility in Fayetteville that will use pyrolysis to convert plastic waste into fuel. The company chose Fayetteville for its strategic location and access to ...