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

The plastics industry claims that the melting done with pyrolysis, which does not involve burning, is a closed loop with few emissions.

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 ...

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.