Researchers at the University of Sydney (Camperdown, Australia) have developed new methods to address future carbon and glass fiber composite waste from the automotive, aerospace and renewable ...

Hundreds of pints of spoiled Ben & Jerry’s ice cream awaited their fate in a Williston warehouse this month. Unfit for sale, the sweet rejects from the company’s factories would be scooped up by a ...

Composites recycling emerged in the 1990s, led by carbon fiber’s augmented prevalence in industries like aerospace and automotive. Today, however, the increasing ...

Almost 80% of plastic in the waste stream ends up in landfills or accumulates in the environment. Scientists have now developed a technology that converts a conventionally unrecyclable mixture of ...

Single-use plastic might just be the most insane act of collective self-harm humanity commits every single day. Each year, the United Nations Environment Programme estimates that we discard a ...

A research team led by Professor Kotohiro Nomura from Tokyo Metropolitan University has developed a method for the depolymerization of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) using alcohols and an ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – A Cornell University-led research team has developed a method for extracting gold from electronics waste, then using the recovered precious metal as a catalyst for converting carbon ...

A new recycling technique developed in China claims to capture 99.99% of the lithium in spent electric vehicle batteries, a level of recovery that would have sounded fanciful only a few years ago. By ...