A recent innovation could make it easier to transform plastic waste into usable products. In September 2025, the University of Delaware announced a breakthrough in hydrogenolysis, a chemical reaction ...

Carbon Neutral partners with South Korean firm to convert cruise plastic waste into fuel through Caribbean port facilities.

“Plastic production has sharply increased over the last 70 years. In 1950, the world produced just two million tonnes,” according to the website Our World in Data. That figure grew to over 450 million ...

"For as long as I walk this earth, there will be no such thing as plastic waste, only untapped potential energy." This quote, stated by young inventor Julian Brown on his company's website, NatureJab, ...

An Italian oil giant will soon build a biorefinery and recycling plant to generate fuel from food waste and discarded plastic. According to a press release, Eni, one of the largest oil companies in ...

Cutting-edge South Korean waste-to-fuel technology transforms cruise plastic waste into usable energy FORT LEE, NJ, UNITED STATES, January 8, 2026 /EINPresswire.com ...

NEW HAVEN — Yale University researchers have figured out how to convert plastic waste into “fuel-range chemicals” that could eventually power turbines and diesel engines and jets. Once refined, these ...

Plastics are valued for their durability, but that quality also makes them difficult to break down. Tiny pieces of debris known as microplastics persist in soil, water and air and threaten ecosystems ...

Ali Kamali, a doctoral candidate in chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, inspects a sample of liquid fuel created from plastics. He is part of a UD-led research team ...