Five general principles of waste minimization apply just as well to the smaller-scale operations of research laboratories as they do to industrial settings: Chemicals can be ordered conservatively to ...

To paraphrase a line from Alice in Wonderland, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” In the ever-evolving landscape of sustainability and recycling, the plastics ...

New research aims to ease the process of chemical recycling -- an emerging industry that could turn waste products back into natural resources by physically breaking plastic down into the smaller ...

The newest flashpoint in a political battle between environmental groups and the plastics industry over “chemical” or “advanced” recycling has to do with the kinds of claims that can be made and still ...

The agency is moving toward resurrecting a proposal from the first Trump administration to ditch Clean Air Act regulations.

Contaminated soil and water from the February 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, is being shipped to Indiana on Tuesday, and could be sent to other states as contractors and officials look to ...

As the Environmental Protection Agency grapples with how to meet its goal of a 50 percent U.S. recycling rate by 2030, it's wading through some starkly different viewpoints on what role chemical ...

The plastics industry claims that ‘chemical recycling’ or ‘advanced recycling’ technologies, which use heat or solvents to convert waste plastic into chemical feedstocks that can potentially be ...

Diplomats negotiating guidelines for an international convention on hazardous wastes this month in Switzerland debated a new section on the “chemical recycling” of plastic debris fouling the global ...

Elizabeth Braun, PhD and Christina McKeon Across North America, many school laboratories contain legacy chemicals that have accumulated over ...