The EPA is reconsidering whether chemical plastic recycling facilities should be held to the same air pollution standards as ...

The findings potentially resolve a long-standing issue with methanol conversion, which has tended to be clunky, inefficient, ...

It was an "almost accidental" discovery, the photocatalyst they invented turned out to be robust enough to withstand the ...

Naphtha, a petroleum-derived chemical, is used in the production of plastic and vinyl products. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

Over time, plastics break into smaller and smaller fragments called microplastics and — when they’re invisible to the naked eye — nanoplastics. The human body’s mechanisms ...

Petrochemicals derived from oil sit on store shelves in the form of plastics, fertilizers, detergents, and packaging.

So the waste problem in 3D printing is really a chemistry problem. Once these materials harden, they’re locked into their ...

How did plastic become so ubiquitous? The answer lies deep beneath the surface of the earth. In her new book Plastic Inc., ...

Plastic prices are rising as war in the Middle East constrains supply chains and global petrochemical markets.

US researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have found a new way to turn the world’s most common plastic waste ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a method to convert a commonly discarded ...

Researchers have developed a solar-powered reactor to break down hard-to-recycle forms of plastic waste using acid recovered ...