People and animals create lots of waste that is usually sent to landfills, incinerated, or stored in engineered ponds such as ...

Scientists have found a way to turn plastic into acetic acid using a source that's present in abundance.

Almost 80% of plastic in the waste stream ends up in landfills or accumulates in the environment. Scientists have now developed a technology that converts a conventionally unrecyclable mixture of ...

Composites recycling emerged in the 1990s, led by carbon fiber’s augmented prevalence in industries like aerospace and automotive. Today, however, the increasing ...

Single-use plastic might just be the most insane act of collective self-harm humanity commits every single day. Each year, the United Nations Environment Programme estimates that we discard a ...

Hundreds of pints of spoiled Ben & Jerry’s ice cream awaited their fate in a Williston warehouse this month. Unfit for sale, the sweet rejects from the company’s factories would be scooped up by a ...

Researchers at the University of Sydney (Camperdown, Australia) have developed new methods to address future carbon and glass fiber composite waste from the automotive, aerospace and renewable ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – A Cornell University-led research team has developed a method for extracting gold from electronics waste, then using the recovered precious metal as a catalyst for converting carbon ...

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have developed a lab-tested process that converts waste paper ...