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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists turn discarded plastic into a powerful material that captures carbon dioxide and helps fight climate change. (CREDIT: ...

Carbon dioxide levels keep climbing, even after years of promises to cut emissions. At the same time, plastic waste pours into oceans, rivers, and landfills. These crises often feel separate, yet they ...

Working with VTT Technical Research Institute of Finland, who originally developed the technology, Refinity operated at pilot scale for one week of continuous production, producing a metric ton of ...

New Report: Scientists have found evidence of microplastics in human brains as well as 98.9% of seafood samples. The problem with Plastic. A new report from the WEF stated, Microplastics have been ...

Company Secures First Waste-to-Energy Conversion Site in Fayetteville, North Carolina Only around 5% of plastic waste in the US is recycled. Over 86% of plastic waste in the US is sent to landfills.

Waste Energy (WAST) released an update regarding its plastic waste-to-fuel conversion business using advanced pyrolysis technology and AI. The company has identified four strategic locations in 2 ...

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 ...

Using nanomaterial-based catalysts, we drive depolymerisation, a process that breaks plastics back into their molecular ...