A pilot program that turns unrecyclable plastic waste into multicolored building blocks is growing citywide in Tucson. Mayor Regina Romero and the City Council approved a four-year service agreement ...

A radical new process “vaporizes” plastic bags and bottles to help make recycled materials. American scientists say the innovative chemical procedure turns ubiquitous waste items into hydrocarbon ...

Imagine taking heaps and heaps of earth-polluting, unusable plastic waste and actually transforming it into something constructive? Plastic pollution is a proliferating and increasingly overwhelming ...

Chemists at UC Berkeley said they have created a new laboratory process that could represent a major step forward in recycling plastic products — from single-use bags commonly found in grocery stores ...

It was an "almost accidental" discovery, the photocatalyst they invented turned out to be robust enough to withstand the ...

image: Inspired by the warming Earth’s greenhouse effect, we design a catalyst architecture that enables waves selectively to pass through. This greenhouse mimic is composed of a carbonized MOF core ...

Tucson officials broke ground Wednesday on a new facility that will transform plastic waste into construction-grade building material. The city’s deal with ByFusion will result in a 10,000 square-foot ...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have built a solar-powered reactor that converts waste plastic into hydrogen fuel ...

New TNO research tackles the core challenge: recycling complex, mixed textile waste that current technologies cannot process.

Despite being one of our most useful day-to-day tools, glass is a material that's rarely recycled due to complicated logistics. That's why researchers at the University of Portsmouth and their ...