Secondhand hauls can still be bad for the planet, says Peleg Mizrachi: “Once we’re buying a lot in a high volume, there’s an environmental price to that.” Her study finds that people who buy primarily ...

"We believe that this … strategy offers a promising route for upcycling waste plastics," Tsinghua University researcher Zedong Zhang said, per Phys.org. Tsinghua's team in China collaborated with an ...

The setup includes at least eight stages, including a separating system, a cooling area, and a continuous pyrolysis line. Its ...

Scientists are finding new ways to replace expensive, scarce platinum catalysts with something far more abundant: tungsten ...

For years, the public face of ocean pollution has been the same: floating bottles, drifting bags, and beaches littered with ...

Efforts are already underway to fix some of California’s recycling problems. Passed in 2022, Senate Bill 54 shifts the focus ...

Plastic pollution is everywhere—including where you would least expect it, especially when it's in tiny particle form. Today, ...

Important everyday products—from plastics to detergents—are made through chemical reactions that mostly use precious metals such as platinum as catalysts. Scientists have been searching for more ...

Accra’s waste problem is often described as a sanitation issue. In reality, it is an economic system hiding in plain sight. Every rainy season, plastic sachets choke drains and the city floods within ...

If there’s one material that defines modern life more than any other, it’s plastic: present from the moment we’re born in newborn stool, in ...

A growing number of countries are burning garbage, including large amounts of plastic, to generate energy, but experts warn the practice may cause more harm than good, reported Mongabay.