In 1950, global plastic production was about 2 million tons. It’s now about 400 million tons – an increase of nearly 20,000%. As a material, it has seemingly limitless potential. Plastic is ...
ASHLEY, Indiana—The bales, bundles and bins of plastic waste are stacked 10 feet high in a shiny new warehouse that rises from a grassy field near a town known for its bright yellow smiley-face water ...
PROVIDENCE – Three years ago, after state regulators rejected a proposal in West Warwick to build a medical waste-to-energy plant, Gov. Dan McKee went a step further and signed a statewide ban on ...
A joint research team has developed a technology to produce high-value-added plastic raw materials called dicarboxylic acids ...
A proposal to build a waste-to-energy plant has been submitted to Cairns Regional Council with up to almost a thousand tonnes ...
Reversing its own Trump-era proposal, the Environmental Protection Agency has spurned a lobbying effort by the chemical industry to relax clean-air regulations on two types of chemical or “advanced” ...
A new kind of methane reactor is promising something that has long sounded too good to be true: turning fossil gas into clean ...
How can discarded plastic film be converted into fuel and turned from waste into treasure?HANGZHOU, China, Dec. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Hundreds of millions of tons of light materials exist ...