US researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have found a new way to turn the world’s most common plastic waste into gasoline and diesel fuels. Polyethylene is a common polymer used in the ...

A prominent energy company has signed a deal with Chinese pyrolysis technology provider Niutech ...

Researchers keep finding ingenious ways to manage plastic waste by converting it into new materials in a virtuous loop. While the technologies may work remarkably well, the intensive resources and ...

In a study published in Macromolecules, researchers introduce a novel polymer that could simplify how materials are applied, removed and recycled by eliminating several complex processing steps used ...

Plastic, in different forms, is everywhere. From bottles of water to medicine, this synthetic material is so versatile and so cheap that almost every industry on Earth has found some use for it. And ...