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 ...

A joint research team has developed a technology to produce high-value-added plastic raw materials called dicarboxylic acids ...

Workers inspect a Quantafuel pyrolysis plant in Denmark. Quantafuel, which runs this plant in Skive, Denmark, is collaborating with BASF’s ChemCycling project to turn pyrolysis oil into chemicals.

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it was the ...

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 ...

PROVIDENCE — State Sen. Frank Lombardo III says using a high-heat process called pyrolysis to break down plastic garbage into oils, tar and gases that can be burned or repurposed into other consumer ...

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