Chemists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have discovered a method that could turn plastic waste into valuable chemicals by using sunlight. In lab experiments,... Read more
A research group at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed an efficient process for breaking down any plastic waste to a molecular level. The resulting gases can then be tr... Read more
A University of Adelaide-led research team has developed a new approach to purging water sources of the microplastics that pollute them without harming nearby microorganisms. Plastic waste f... Read more
The smallest microplastics in our oceans – which go largely undetected and are potentially harmful – could be more effectively identified using an innovative and inexpensive new method, deve... Read more
Billions of pounds of plastic waste are littering the world’s oceans. Now, a Ph.D. organic chemist and a sailboat captain report that they are developing a process to reuse certain plastics,... Read more
Approach tackles most commonly used synthetic plastic A new way of recycling millions of tons of plastic garbage into liquid fuel has been devised by researchers from the University of Calif... Read more
Something for the “Oceanic Fleet” of autonomous, renewable energy driven plastic scooping robots to help with . . . IT While working on a research sailboat gliding over glassy se... Read more
While a lot of people may be doing their part for the environment by sending their discarded plastic items off for recycling, the fact is that much of the plastic currently in use is non-rec... Read more
The EOG can be fed almost any petroleum-based waste plastic and will convert it into synthetic light to medium oil for less than USD$10 per barrel. Read more
Image by Getty Images via @daylife PLASTICS were once regarded as wonder-materials. They are still ubiquitous, but find less favour than they used to because of the very stability and persis... Read more