A few products are just a little too iconic of our current environmental predicament. The Hummer. The computer you bought two years ago. The plastic bag. These items (and others) generate a lot of ...

Normally, potato chip bags, beer rings, gooey food wrappers and other plastics that cannot be recycled go directly to the dump. But improvements on an existing technology could divert billions of tons ...

Researchers have unveiled a low cost metal catalyst that can tear apart plastic waste around ten times more efficiently than traditional platinum based systems, potentially slashing the cost of ...

A purpose-driven innovation by a Hyderabad professor shows how non-recyclable plastic can be transformed into low-cost fuel while tackling India’s growing waste crisis.

With the amount of plastic swirling around in the ocean, wouldn't it be handy if the boats charged with cleaning it up could use the trash to fuel their own operations? A new study has crunched the ...

The Education Advancement Centre, Ibadan, Oyo State, has developed a way of turning unwanted plastic waste into environmental-friendly Automative Gas Oil (AGO) otherwise called diesel fuel. Director ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. An expert panel will hold public meetings on March 6 and 7 as it investigates the health impacts of the plastics-to-fuel factory planned ...