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Insight into the Plastics Sector's Long-Term Dynamics

News - 8 Dec 2022

A circular bioeconomy has the potential to significantly reduce the climate, pollution, and resource consumption implications of the fast-growing plastic sector. Under existing practices, global...

New Technology Converts Waste Biomass into Solid, Clean-Burning Fuel

News - 30 Sep 2022

To prepare fields for planting, farmers the world over often burn corn stalks, rice husks, hay, straw, and other waste left behind from the previous harvest. In many places, the practice creates huge...

Marine Microbes Biodegrade and Consume Polyurethane Foam

News - 23 Sep 2022

Plastics, which are already omnipresent throughout the globe, pose a significant challenge to human and environmental health. Evidence of plastic pollution can be found globally, from grocery bags in...

Expanding the Frontiers of Plastic Recycling with New Method

News - 24 Aug 2022

The plastic waste that is released into the environment has garnered a lot of attention due to ocean trash and overcrowded landfills. Communities all across the world are exerting a great deal of...

Ground Breaking Trial Returning Cotton Textile Waste to Cotton Fields in Goondiwindi, Queensland Shows Promising Results

News - 27 Jul 2022

A 12 month trial on a cotton farm just outside the rural town of Goondiwindi Queensland in Australia has shown it’s possible to divert large amounts of cotton textile waste at end of life from...

Mixed Microbial Communities Can Simultaneously Degrade Mixed Plastic Waste Inputs

News - 13 Jun 2022

According to scientists at Michigan Technological University, chemical pre-treatments that tend to break down specific kinds of plastics can help naturally occurring microbial communities to quickly...

FSU Study Could Help Reduce Millions of Tons of Food Waste from Bananas

News - 12 May 2022

New research from Florida State University won't only help you nail the timing for your banana bread -; it could also help reduce millions of tons of food waste from the widely cultivated...

A New Method for Converting Plastic Waste into Hydrogen

News - 7 Apr 2022

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a new method for plastic waste to be converted into hydrogen based on pyrolysis, a high temperature chemical...

Converting Hard-to-Process Trash into Carbon-Capture Master

News - 6 Apr 2022

There is another way to utilize the mountain of plastic that is waiting to be thrown away: use it to soak up surplus carbon dioxide. Graduate student Paul Savas feeds raw plastic into a crusher to...

Guam Endorses a Resolution on Plastic Pollution

News - 15 Feb 2022

Guam is now one out of eight countries and territories with Pacific interests to support the “Pacific Regional Declaration on the Prevention of Marine Litter and Plastic Pollution and Its...