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 ...

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

Ammonia is one of the most widely produced chemicals in the world, used mostly as fertilizer, but also for the production of ...

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

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 ...

Researchers have demonstrated a new and sustainable way to make the chemicals that are the basis of thousands of products – ...

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 ...

Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Public Health, Colorado State University A vast number of chemicals are registered for production and use around the world ...

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. Plastics are among the ...