A technique called flash joule heating at Rice University can convert plastic waste, even unsorted and unwashed, into clean hydrogen and valuable graphene. If sold at just 5% of its market value, the ...

A technology using bubbles —to clean up plastic pollution in waterways could be making its United States debut at the Grand ...

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Humans generate a lot of plastic waste – more than 400 million metric tons a year. Plastic products have been propelling our quality of life forward for over a century, from keeping food fresh longer ...

Hydrogen gas is a carbon-free energy source that can be burned in place of fossil fuels. But its most common production method relies on methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Other known methods are ...

Reversing its own Trump-era proposal, the Environmental Protection Agency has spurned a lobbying effort by the chemical industry to relax clean-air regulations on two types of chemical or “advanced” ...

People in low-income urban communities in the Global South without access to reliable energy sources are burning the toxic ...

The zero-waste movement was born to combat what many call the "plastic crisis." Now, this movement has a new local partner. The Clean Refill is a zero-waste home and body product store at 3601 ...

To bring this fact a bit closer to home, the U.S. produced an average of 0.75 pounds of plastic waste per person each day in 2010, which is equivalent in weight to an unopened can of soda. To address ...

Researchers estimate that 52% of sea turtles worldwide have eaten plastic waste, writes JP Bryan. Plastic can injure or kill turtles by obstructing their gut or by exposing them to toxic chemicals ...

When wildlife photographer Shawn Miller discovered Okinawa's hermit crabs living in plastic bottle caps instead of shells, he ...