A prominent energy company has signed a deal with Chinese pyrolysis technology provider Niutech ...

A discarded water bottle and a pile of corn stalks sound like the last things anyone would put near a cookie tray. Yet researchers have used their carbon-rich components to create a protein-rich, ...

Researchers at Southern Illinois University (SIU) put microbes to the test to transform plastic waste into edible food for ...

Researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are developing protein-rich cookies made using plastic waste and agricultural waste. Called µBites, the cookies use PET plastic from bottles and ...

Researchers programmed yeast to turn plastic and agricultural waste into proteins, vitamins and flavorings for edible cookies ...

Researchers have discovered a way to turn notoriously difficult-to-recycle PVC plastic into a key ingredient used in ...

Two people stand in a laboratory in front of a closed fume hood; each is wearing goggles, a lab coat, and gloves and holds a box of nitrile rubber gloves. Evan Bailey and Caroline Gilmer were inspired ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

Each year, the world produces about 400 million tonnes of plastic waste – more than the combined weight of all the people on Earth. Just 9 percent of it is recycled, and one study predicts that global ...

At the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University, an incredible collaboration is taking place between a 16-year-old high school student and the medical staff. The ReCap Project, ...

Dealing with plastic waste is a real headache. But with a little help, bacteria can turn plastic into a painkiller. The approach could help reduce plastic pollution and curb reliance on the fossil ...