Greenhouse gases and plastic waste are two of the biggest environmental problems the world faces today. A new reactor from Cambridge tackles both at once, converting CO2 and used plastic bottles into ...

Farmers around the world regularly burn post-harvest crop waste, producing a significant amount of greenhouse gases and air pollution in the process. A new portable system, however, can be brought to ...

Ancient alchemists dreamed of transforming base materials like lead into gold and other valuable commodities. While such efforts generally came to naught, researchers today are having some success in ...

The first time I heard about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, I thought it was a bad joke. My incredulity soon turned to horror when I realized it’s real. The garbage patch, also known as the Pacific ...

Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, ...

A solar-powered device could help remove carbon dioxide from the air and convert plastic waste into sustainable fuel and useful chemicals, in a double-whammy of recycling. Previous research on solar ...

image: A $5.2 million Army Corps of Engineers grant will expand Rice University efforts to recycle waste into valuable products through flash Joule heating. In an early experiment shown here, carbon ...

Qamar Schuyler does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Researchers have been exploring how bacteria can convert organic waste into useful products. They describe for the first time how the chain elongation processes are carried out by microorganisms under ...

Ancient alchemists dreamed of transforming base materials like lead into gold and other valuable commodities. While such efforts generally came to naught, researchers today are having some success in ...