A few products are just a little too iconic of our current environmental predicament. The Hummer. The computer you bought two years ago. The plastic bag. These items (and others) generate a lot of ...

Normally, potato chip bags, beer rings, gooey food wrappers and other plastics that cannot be recycled go directly to the dump. But improvements on an existing technology could divert billions of tons ...

A Swiss-based technology company reckons it has the solution to Europe’s energy problems with a scientific process that can turn petroleum-based synthetic products into diesel or heating oil.

Chemists have developed a catalytic process that turns the largest component of today's plastic waste stream, polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that are ...

With the amount of plastic swirling around in the ocean, wouldn't it be handy if the boats charged with cleaning it up could use the trash to fuel their own operations? A new study has crunched the ...

The Education Advancement Centre, Ibadan, Oyo State, has developed a way of turning unwanted plastic waste into environmental-friendly Automative Gas Oil (AGO) otherwise called diesel fuel. Director ...