Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Large proportions of plastic waste don't get recycled. Westend61 via Getty Images Plus In 1950, global plastic production was ...

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 ...

The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) is promoting the use of pyrolysis technology as a sustainable solution for ...

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 plastics-processing facility in North Carolina that had been promoted as a possible answer to the growing plastic waste ...

Researchers have developed a process that may help advance plastic waste recycling. A team of scientists from the University of Pittsburgh have optimized a low-cost process called pyrolysis to ...

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it was the first ...

Images of plastic mountains at landfills and islands of floating plastics in our oceans demonstrably show that we are living in an age of immense consumer consumption. A rising worldwide population ...

Pyrolysis encompasses a suite of thermochemical processes that decompose long‐chain polymeric structures of waste plastics into smaller hydrocarbons, gaseous by-products and solid residues. Conducted ...

Vapour drifting off an industrial site burning plastic for fuel set off alarm bells at the local council - yet no one ...

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 inexpensive ...