A new recycling technique developed in China claims to capture 99.99% of the lithium in spent electric vehicle batteries, a level of recovery that would have sounded fanciful only a few years ago. By ...

Plastic waste surrounds daily life, from food containers and grocery bags to shampoo bottles and medical supplies. Much of it ends up buried or drifting into ecosystems because recycling it is slow, ...

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 ...

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 ...

WT Oil & Gas and EnviroKlean debut a Zero Solids produced-water system in the Permian, processing up to 150,000 bpd for ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency has identified the “Maui Method” as the preferred approach for lithium-ion battery disposal. Justin Marquez, a member of the EPA’s National Lithium-Ion Battery ...

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), ...

To improve recycling rates a professor is working on new ways to separate and recycle mixed plastics. Despite consumer efforts to sort and separate recyclables, most plastic bottles still end up in ...

Carbon dioxide levels keep climbing, even after years of promises to cut emissions. At the same time, plastic waste pours ...

The so-called “Maui Method” removes a battery’s charge in brine, preventing fires by eliminating the hazard.

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 ...

Plastic pollution is one of the more pressing issues for conservationists and environmentalists alike. Researchers in Sweden harvested a byproduct of plastic disposal and used it to create a new ...