Recently, researchers from Yale University may have made a dent in that inefficiency. They successfully tested a novel way to produce more bio-oil at less cost. It shows promise for scaling up ...

Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a groundbreaking nickel-based catalyst that could transform the way the ...

Experts estimate that the global production and disposal of plastics emits nearly 2 billion tons of greenhouse gases per year ...

“We now know that plastic waste not only pollutes mountains ... Batholomew urged that solving this problem will require a ...

Correcting our plastic waste problem requires a fundamental change in thinking about how plastics are made, used, and discarded, two new studies say.

Eight million tons of plastic end up in our oceans every year. What it's done to this island is a stark warning.

The green recycling industry has a black underbelly. The public is duped into thinking single-use plastics are easily recyclable.

Apr. 11—Waste poses serious risks to human, environmental health According to West Virginia University professor Michael McCawley, the insidiousness of plastic lies largely within. Because just ...

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So Plastic Bank went to Haiti and set up 40-odd recycling centers where plastic is exchanged not for cash — which could be vulnerable to the petty theft that is a problem in many parts of the ...

The plastic bag problem looms larger every day as they litter our environment and kill land animals and endangered marine life.

Disposable plastics have profoundly reshaped the way we eat, shop, raise children and understand hygiene and progress.