One company selling machinery to make plastic straws finds that President Donald Trump's February executive order telling ...

A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics that dominate the waste stream today and turn them into hydrocarbon building blocks for new plastics. The catalytic process, developed at the ...

Warren, Mich.-based Atomic Industries Inc. is using artificial intelligence (AI) to build injection molds and, according to company officials, improve the quality of molded parts. Founded in 2019, 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 ...

An Orlando startup called Wriggle Brew is pioneering a unique approach to two major environmental problems: plastic pollution ...

The Sonoma County company Resynergi says it will depart the state, just as Gov. Newsom sends CalRecycle back to the drawing ...

Plastic is cheap to make and shockingly profitable. It’s everywhere. And we’re all paying the price. On a Saturday last summer, I kayaked up a Connecticut river from the coast, buoyed by the rising ...

Researchers have found a way to harvest hydrogen from plastic waste using a low-emissions method that generates graphene as a by-product, which could help offset production costs. Hydrogen is viewed ...

Move over crude oil, scientists have found a way to turn plastic waste into paracetamol, also known as acetaminophen, using a common bacterium. The breakthrough, developed by researchers at the ...

Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers. A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics ...