A mortar made from recycled plastic and silica aerogel that improves insulation and reduces plastic waste has been developed ...

A Curtin University-led paper, "The Use of Plastic as a Household Fuel among the Urban Poor in the Global South" published in ...

That explains the excitement around a chemical plant that will start commercial operations this year in northeast England. In principle, it can take any kind of plastic waste, including mixed plastics ...

Increasing plastic pollution presents a significant challenge for humanity and ecosystems. Photothermal (light-to-heat) conversion has emerged as a promising strategy for recycling plastic waste ...

Christopher Wright, President Trump’s choice for Energy secretary, has been well received in the energy industry. He gets good marks for being of the industry instead of another discipline ...

Access to energy in Yemen was limited before the current conflict began nearly a decade ago. Since then, the energy crisis has worsened. Most households in Yemen struggle with irregular access to ...

The development of affordable, environment-friendly alternatives to single-use plastics could eventually solve much of the world’s plastic waste problem — and several options already exist in labs.

India tops the global list in plastic waste generation, producing a staggering 10.2 million tonnes annually. This figure is more than double that of the next biggest polluters, including Pakistan, ...

reports on critical materials for future energy use. In 2013, he discovered a chemical reaction that could extract 15 of the 17 rare earth elements from discarded electronic waste. The team then ...

Plastic Exchange Store, an initiative of the Cox's Bazar district administration that started on 7 November 2024, has collected around 45 metric tonnes of waste in 76 days from the Cox's Bazar and ...