New solar reactor turns waste plastic and battery acid into hydrogen fuel and useful chemicals, offering a cleaner recycling ...

Researchers have developed a solar-powered reactor that transforms hard-to-recycle plastic waste into clean hydrogen ...

Areas with less wealth and formal education often have fewer nearby facilities, making recycling more difficult and expensive ...

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

Wealthier, more educated US communities recycle more plastic due to better access to industrial recycling facilities." ...

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The global plastic crisis has long been a ticking time bomb, but now, it seems, a revolution is underway. One company, Corsair Group International, is rewriting the narrative of waste management with ...

The technique pioneered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory produces high-value-added chemicals from plastic waste without ...

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The use of plastic has skyrocketed over the past decade. Recent statistics reveal that in 2021, each person in the European Union (EU) generated an average of 36 kg of plastic packaging waste.

A team of researchers in Hawaii are trying out making roads from recycled ocean plastic waste. It's the first time that ocean plastic waste has been recycled in this way, and it aims to help tackle ...