Recently, researchers from Yale University may have made a dent in that inefficiency. They successfully tested a novel way to ...

Plastic production has sharply increased over the last 70 years. In 1950, the world produced just two million tonnes,” according to the website Our World in Data. That figure grew to over 450 million ...

Professor Marcus Foston, of Washington University St. Louis, helped develop a new process using byproducts from soybean oil, ...

One night several years ago, Chris Ulum was driving to the Oregon Coast with his 10-year-old daughter when she asked him to explain the project that had been keeping him so busy on evenings and ...

Finnish environmental services firm acquires full ownership of chemical recycling plant in that nation. Lamor says the plastic scrap-to-oil line in Porvoo, Finland, will be able to recycle about ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Plastics and other petrochemical products will drive global oil demand to 2050, offsetting slower consumption of motor fuel, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Friday.