The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...
Recycling bin filled with plastic bottles emphasizes waste management and environmental awareness. Image in public domain.
Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a ...
A new process that converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled into new PET products or upcycled into higher value materials. Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern ...
Chemists and innovative recyclers are trying to turn gloves, pipette tips, and other laboratory plastic waste into something ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Successful recycling requires some care. Alejandra Villa Loarca/Newsday RM via Getty Images Every week, millions of Americans toss ...
Sorting plants in recycling usually do not recognize black plastic, which is why it is sorted out instead of being recycled.
Plastics are inescapable in our daily lives. The vast amounts of plastic garbage heaped in landfills and in the environment, however, are as problematic as the plastics are useful. A research team has ...