In 1950, global plastic production was about 2 million tons. It’s now about 400 million tons – an increase of nearly 20,000%. As a material, it has seemingly limitless potential. Plastic is ...
InnoVent’s technology converts end-of-life tires into products like tire pyrolysis oil and recovered carbon black.
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it was the ...
Images of plastic mountains at landfills and islands of floating plastics in our oceans demonstrably show that we are living in an age of immense consumer consumption. A rising worldwide population ...
PROVIDENCE – Three years ago, after state regulators rejected a proposal in West Warwick to build a medical waste-to-energy plant, Gov. Dan McKee went a step further and signed a statewide ban on ...
Zeopore Technologies and BioBTX have announced a 'major advancement' in converting waste plastics and biomass into circular ...
As a biofuel, ethanol has drawbacks. Conventional engines and infrastructure can corrode when exposed to it. The alcohol can absorb water from the air, reducing its already low energy density and ...
The Finnish firm Hycamite TCD Technologies has raised about $28 million from investors to advance its pyrolysis technology for turning methane into hydrogen and elemental carbon. Unlike the combustion ...