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 ...

A joint research team led by Dr. Sang-Goo Jeon from the Bioenergy and Resources Upcycling Research Laboratory at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) and Dr. Jung-Oh Ahn from the BioProcess ...

Researchers from Università di Pavia in Italy and Sophia University in Japan have created a novel microwave-induced pyrolysis technique that offers an economical and effective means of recycling ...

DILLINGEN/SAAR, Germany—Pyrum Innovations A.G., a European firm that uses a patented pyrolysis method to convert end-of-life tires, is leading a joint venture in establishing a 20,000-ton-per-year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world produces 460 million metric tons of plastic each and every year. But only about 9 percent of it gets recycled, leading ...

Flame spray pyrolysis has long been used to make small particles that can be used as paint pigments. Now, researchers at Argonne National Laboratory are refining the process to make smaller, ...

A recent article in Battery Energy outlines a method for converting cigarette filter waste (CFW) into carbon nanomaterials (CNMs) through a single-step, low-impact pyrolysis process. The goal is to ...

The growing emphasis on reducing the carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel-based power plants has increased the importance of harnessing clean and renewable sources such as wind to generate energy ...