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 ...

The conversion of waste tyres via pyrolysis offers a viable route for both energy recovery and the production of valuable materials, thereby addressing mounting environmental challenges. In this ...

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands has inaugurated Circtec’s pyrolysis plant for recycling end-of-life tires at the Delfzijl chemical industry cluster near Groningen. The opening follows the com ...

14 million motor vehicles are scrapped in the EU each year, representing an enormous waste problem. Seventy-five percent of a modern car is composed of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, which are ...

A joint research team led by Dr. Sang-Goo Jeon from the Bioenergy and Resources Upcycling Research Laboratory at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) and Dr. Jung-Oh Ahn from the BioProcess ...

A research team demonstrates that palm-based handicraft processing wastes—specifically tagua nut and bodhi root—can be ...

Images of plastic mountains at landfills and islands of floating plastics in our oceans demonstrably show that we are living in an age of immense consumer consumption. A rising worldwide population ...

Dow Chemical has reached an agreement with the Fuenix Ecogy Group, based in Weert, Netherlands, for the supply of pyrolysis oil feedstock, which is made from recycled plastic waste. The feedstock will ...

Braven Environmental LLC plans to invest nearly $32 million in a pyrolysis plant in Virginia to turn waste plastics into fuels or new plastics, Gov. Ralph Northam's office announced June 2. Braven ...

Manufacturers use method that labels plastic as ‘circular’ and climate-friendly, despite being mostly fossil-based ...