With the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considering easing air pollution standards for high-heat plastic-waste ...

Dr. Byungwook Hwang's research team from the CCS Research Department at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has successfully developed a process that applies the circulating fluidized bed ...

A radical new process “vaporizes” plastic bags and bottles to help make recycled materials. American scientists say the innovative chemical procedure turns ubiquitous waste items into hydrocarbon ...

For two decades, the federal government has classified the heated chambers used to break down plastic waste as incinerators, ...

Sorting plastic is hard; scientists found compatibilizers may enable direct recycling of mixed plastics into 3D-printed ...

Researchers have developed a solar-powered reactor that transforms hard-to-recycle plastic waste into clean hydrogen ...

Chemists have developed a catalytic process that turns the largest component of today's plastic waste stream, polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that are ...

It was an "almost accidental" discovery, the photocatalyst they invented turned out to be robust enough to withstand the ...

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 ...

Dr. Byungwook Hwang’s research team from the CCS Research Department at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has successfully developed a process that applies the circulating fluidized bed ...

On 31 March 2026, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (“MoEFCC”) notified the Plastic Waste Management ...

New TNO research tackles the core challenge: recycling complex, mixed textile waste that current technologies cannot process.