Discarded shopping bags and spent milk bottles could be given a second life by becoming part of critical infrastructure, new ...

NETL researchers are closing in on a more effective and less expensive way to combine a growing accumulation of plastic waste with coal and biomass for a steam gasification process that can produce ...

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COLUMBIA — South Carolina legislators passed a bill Jan. 20 that could herald the entrance of new "advanced recycling" facilities into the state, including a controversial plastic-melting method ...

However, because the melting points of plastics and metals are very different, this technology has been limited to creating objects of either metal or plastic only -- until now.

Racquel Paz, 16, of Corvallis, foreground, investigates melting points of plastics with Chase Jacob, also 16, of Eugene on Thursday afternoon. (Amanda Cowan | Corvallis Gazette-Times) ...