A pair of companies are teaming up to create a plastic-to-synthetic diesel fuel plant in Canada that will harvest feedstock from trash. PK Clean Technologies Inc. of Salt Lake City has a deal with ...

Having now reached the deepest parts of the ocean, the plastic pollution problem is calling for some creative solutions. Plastic-eating bacteria or edible alternative materials could help, as could ...

Plastic shopping bags can be converted into diesel fuel and other petroleum products, using a new process developed at the University of Illinois. Shopping bags made from plastic are not biogradable.

Resynergi LLC has developed what the Rohnert Park company states is a proprietary system using microwaves to transform unrecycled waste plastic into oil. By mid-year the company plans to announce ...

THOROLD, Ontario, June 17, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- JBI, Inc. (the "Company" or "JBII") (OTCQX:JBII) announced today that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) has ...

Normally, potato chip bags, beer rings, gooey food wrappers and other plastics that cannot be recycled go directly to the dump. But improvements on an existing technology could divert billions of tons ...

One of the biggest problems facing the Earth's environment right now is the abundance of plastic waste. An estimated 5 billion tons of plastic is collecting in landfills or filling the oceans, and if ...

Plastic pollution clogs our oceans and landfills. According to the Earth Policy Institute, Americans use about one plastic bag every day for just a few minutes before discarding it. Those bags end up ...

Despite efforts to limit their use through implementation of charges or bans, billions of plastic bags continue to clog landfills, waterways and the world's oceans every year. Already a potential ...

You can download an audio podcast here or subscribe via iTunes. Plastic pollution in our oceans represents an "Eco-genocide" according to Bonnie Monteleone, Executive ...

A new process to recycle existing plastics indefinitely and reduce the flood of plastics into landfills is being developed by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley. From sandwich bags ...