Although the need for effective waste management has been recognized for decades, human and environmental health challenges associated with plastic waste are not only growing but also accelerating.

There, in a class called Climate and Energy Ventures, he met Jan-Georg Rosenboom, a postdoc who had developed a chemical ...

Among the various plastic recycling methods being explored, one promising approach is biological plastic recycling, also ...

The global plastics recycling market offers significant opportunities driven by innovation, stricter regulations, and ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

Gaps still remain. We need to continue strengthening infrastructure and aligning efforts across public and private sectors ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the ...

The technique pioneered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory produces high-value-added chemicals from plastic waste without catalytic initiators or solvents at temperatures below 200°C. Researchers keep ...

Current methods to recycle plastics often use expensive catalysts, harsh conditions and produce toxic byproducts. New process converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled ...

Note: Eastman Chemical Company’s first “molecular recycling” facility is now fully operational in Kingsport. It uses a process called methanolysis to reduce hard-to-recycle waste plastic to its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic is processed at Exxon Mobil's chemical recycling plant in Baytown, Texas, in October 2023. (Sergio Flores / AFP via Getty ...