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 ...

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 ...

Design work is now underway on what is being touted as the world's largest pyrolysis plant, a project that has the support of a major petroleum company that will use output to make food-grade polymers ...

In Akron, Ohio, situated amid industrial buildings and auto service centers, is a small oasis of polished steel and nonslip scaffolding. The proprietors of this new facility hope it’s the future of ...

ASHLEY, Indiana—The bales, bundles and bins of plastic waste are stacked 10 feet high in a shiny new warehouse that rises from a grassy field near a town known for its bright yellow smiley-face water ...

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.

Two years after walking away from a proposed pyrolysis plant to process plastic waste in Georgia, Brightmark LLC is once again looking to develop such a facility in that state. This time, the San ...

SUGARLOAF, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A proposal for a plastic pyrolysis plant by Alterra Energy has been withdrawn. A public records request revealed a letter from Alterra Energy to Sugarloaf ...

Kevin A. Schug receives funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes for Health, ExxonMobil, and Weaver Consultants Group. He is affiliated with VUV Analytics, Inc. and ...