The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway also used by fungi.

For yoghurt and quark pots, around 15% of recyclable material is lost. NTCP, TNO and partners are investigating how to ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

A successful collaboration involving a trio of research institutions has yielded a roadmap toward an economically viable process for using enzymes to recycle plastics. Subscribe to our newsletter for ...

TotalEnergies' new plastics recycling plant has come under fire from environmental activists, who claim the chemicals it uses ...

Researchers have developed electrochemical methods that break down waste PET plastic, the material in most disposable water ...

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The reaction can form and break apart ultra-strong sulfur-sulfur bonds within seconds, which could have major implications in ...

The fire burning, the banjo playing, the stories, and the sweet aromatic smell of grains; there might not be anything more Americana than the moonshiner, risking it all to provide their families some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mixed plastics are held in an iron recycling bin behind a small general store in Derby, Indiana. Many parts of the United States ...

Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your ...