A pilot program that turns unrecyclable plastic waste into multicolored building blocks is growing citywide in Tucson. Mayor Regina Romero and the City Council approved a four-year service agreement ...

Researchers reuse old car battery acid, simultaneously combining waste streams in move towards circular chemicals ...

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 ...

Imagine taking heaps and heaps of earth-polluting, unusable plastic waste and actually transforming it into something constructive? Plastic pollution is a proliferating and increasingly overwhelming ...

Chemists at UC Berkeley said they have created a new laboratory process that could represent a major step forward in recycling plastic products — from single-use bags commonly found in grocery stores ...

Scientists turn plastic waste into fuel using sunlight and water in a new study that could change how we manage pollution and ...

A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most “recyclable” objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected in huge volumes. Yet even for this item, the reality of recycling is messy: ...

Millions of tons of plastic waste accumulate in landfills and oceans every year. One promising response is to engineer ...

Jodhpur: IIT Jodhpur on Wednesday unveiled a technology that converts agricultural residue and plastic waste into construction materials, pitching it as a cleaner and more sustainable option for the ...