Burning plastic waste for household fuel, or to manage household waste, may be far more prevalent in poor urban areas in developing countries than previously thought, raising serious environmental ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new method to convert discarded plastic into gasoline and diesel-like fuels. This breakthrough could help address ...

Humans generate a lot of plastic waste—more than 400 million metric tons a year. To bring this fact a bit closer to home, the U.S. produced an average of 0.75 pounds of plastic waste per person each ...

US researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have found a new way to ...

A recent innovation could make it easier to transform plastic waste into usable products. In September 2025, the University of Delaware announced a breakthrough in hydrogenolysis, a chemical reaction ...

Waste Energy (WAST) released an update regarding its plastic waste-to-fuel conversion business using advanced pyrolysis technology and AI. The company has identified four strategic locations in 2 ...

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A new study finds that sustainable aviation fuel made from municipal solid waste could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80-90% compared with traditional jet fuel. Municipal solid waste-derived ...

Sabrina Summers, University of Illinois, demonstrates hydrotreating biocrude oil from food waste. Airplane travel is more popular than ever, and the desire for fast transportation means jet fuel has ...

India’s next great economic breakthrough may not come from software, electronics or financial services. It may come from something far more basic—and far more transformative: carbon. Not merely fossil ...