A pair of companies are teaming up to create a plastic-to-synthetic diesel fuel plant in Canada that will harvest feedstock from trash. PK Clean Technologies Inc. of Salt Lake City has a deal with ...

Having now reached the deepest parts of the ocean, the plastic pollution problem is calling for some creative solutions. Plastic-eating bacteria or edible alternative materials could help, as could ...

"High material recovery yields." Innovative company develops game-changing way to make use of common garbage: ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Plastic shopping bags, an abundant source of litter on land and at sea, can be converted into diesel, natural gas and other useful petroleum products, researchers report. The ...

Plastic shopping bags can be converted into diesel fuel and other petroleum products, using a new process developed at the University of Illinois. Shopping bags made from plastic are not biogradable.

Resynergi LLC has developed what the Rohnert Park company states is a proprietary system using microwaves to transform unrecycled waste plastic into oil. By mid-year the company plans to announce ...

Normally, potato chip bags, beer rings, gooey food wrappers and other plastics that cannot be recycled go directly to the dump. But improvements on an existing technology could divert billions of tons ...

Plastic pollution clogs our oceans and landfills. According to the Earth Policy Institute, Americans use about one plastic bag every day for just a few minutes before discarding it. Those bags end up ...

A Swiss-based technology company reckons it has the solution to Europe’s energy problems with a scientific process that can turn petroleum-based synthetic products into diesel or heating oil.

Despite efforts to limit their use through implementation of charges or bans, billions of plastic bags continue to clog landfills, waterways and the world's oceans every year. Already a potential ...

You can download an audio podcast here or subscribe via iTunes. Plastic pollution in our oceans represents an "Eco-genocide" according to Bonnie Monteleone, Executive ...