According to a study published in the journal Science, a new method converts mixed plastic waste into fuel with 95% ...

It’s morning, and you wake up on a comfortable foam mattress made partly from greenhouse gas. You pull on a T-shirt and sneakers manufactured using carbon dioxide pulled from factory emissions. After ...

Polystyrene is made from styrene building blocks and is the most widely used plastic in terms of volume, for example in packaging. Unlike PET, which can now be produced and recycled using ...

The Conversation reports on single-stream recycling, emphasizing its convenience but noting significant contamination issues ...

While plastics help enable modern standards of living, their accumulation in landfills and the overall environment continues ...

Unlike traditional pyrolysis — which operates at temperatures around 450 degrees Celsius to 600 degrees Celsius (842 degrees ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU AgCenter researchers are studying how to make plastics from a byproduct of sugar and say the development could give sugar cane farmers a stake in the plastics industry and ...

The global chemical industry produces hundreds of long, repeating molecular chains called polymers. Only a handful comprise ...

An invisible invasion by land, air and sea: Microscopic plastic pieces are in the food we eat, the air we breathe and the water we drink – bottled or not. For more than three decades, UC San Francisco ...