In 1950, global plastic production was about 2 million tons. It’s now about 400 million tons – an increase of nearly 20,000%. As a material, it has seemingly limitless potential. Plastic is ...

Vietnamese plant uses Niutech technology to convert waste plastic into oil, demonstrating efficiency and environmental ...

Methods that don't employ a catalyst, though, tend to have low rates of converting the waste into products of use. For this project, the researchers found a way around both of these obstacles and ...

Reversing its own Trump-era proposal, the Environmental Protection Agency has spurned a lobbying effort by the chemical industry to relax clean-air regulations on two types of chemical or “advanced” ...

In the adventure classic Back to the Future, Emmett "Doc" Brown uses energy generated from rubbish to power his DeLorean time machine. But while a time machine may still be some way off, the prospect ...

America generates 40 million tons of plastic waste a year — and it can't be recycled.

The chemical recycling (aka advanced recycling) market for plastics is skyrocketing. The plastic packaging portion of the chemical recycling market, which is valued at $730 million in 2022, is ...

JINAN, China, Sept. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, Niutech, a global leader in continuous pyrolysis technology, officially announced the successful signing of a product sales contract with a ...

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