As tons of plastic waste continue to build up in landfills every day, Yale researchers have developed a way to convert this waste into fuels and other valuable products efficiently and cheaply. The ...

A joint research team has developed a technology to produce high-value-added plastic raw materials called dicarboxylic acids ...

The healthcare sector is generating a growing volume of single-use plastic waste. One in particular, saline container waste, is causing concern, as these containers are made from non-biodegradable ...

A joint research team led by Dr. Sang-Goo Jeon from the Bioenergy and Resources Upcycling Research Laboratory at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) and Dr. Jung-Oh Ahn from the BioProcess ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it was the ...

The growing emphasis on reducing the carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel-based power plants has increased the importance of harnessing clean and renewable sources such as wind to generate energy ...

Researchers have developed new methods to solve a major source of future waste from the automotive, aerospace and renewable industries. It's estimated that by 2030 carbon and glass fibre composites ...

Plastic bottles and other trash pile up along the bank of the San Gabriel River in Seal Beach, Calif. Credit: Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images When former top ...