A team of scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has developed a groundbreaking chemical recycling method that could offer a cleaner, more sustainable solution to the growing ...

Declining plastic recycling rates coupled with increased plastic pollution on the Earth’s surface and within its oceans spell concern for the planet’s health. In an effort to combat these trends, ...

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have introduced a cutting-edge recycling method that could revolutionize how we recover valuable materials from used lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), ...

"The bottom line drives a lot of innovation." Startup develops game-changing solution for major problem with common waste: 'I ...

Ocean trash and overflowing landfills have drawn widespread attention to the plastic waste that we put into our environment. In response, communities around the world work hard to reduce, reuse, and ...

Because plastic pollution is a growing problem and a major environmental concern, scientists are working on a variety of ways to recycle waste plastic materials. A research team has successfully ...

How can electronic waste, also known as e-waste, be recycled without resulting in negative environmental impacts that are often produced with traditional e-waste recycling methods? This is what a ...

By Liah Continentino As the holiday season arrives, so does a surge in food waste. A 2020 study by Penn State found that U.S.

Oxford Chemistry researchers have developed a method to destroy fluorine-containing PFAS (sometimes labeled 'forever chemicals') while recovering their fluorine content for future use. The results ...

The method, which the researchers say is “an absolute miracle”, uses the electrically-powered arc furnaces used for steel recycling to simultaneously recycle cement, the carbon-hungry component of ...

A groundbreaking method of recycling electronic waste could revolutionize the extraction of precious metals for green technologies. Gisele Azimi, a professor at the University of Toronto and an expert ...

UNSW Canberra researcher Di He with a sample of carbon fiber recycled using a method he developed. Photo Credit, all images: UNSW Canberra Universty of South Wales (UNSW, Australia) Canberra ...