Carbon Neutral partners with South Korean firm to convert cruise plastic waste into fuel through Caribbean port facilities.

Researchers document widespread plastic burning in homes worldwide, driven by energy poverty, poor waste services, and limited fuel options.

Since 2019, the 191 countries that are party to an international agreement called the Basel Convention have agreed to classify mixed plastic trash as “hazardous waste.” This designation essentially ...

“Plastic production has sharply increased over the last 70 years. In 1950, the world produced just two million tonnes,” according to the website Our World in Data. That figure grew to over 450 million ...

Refuse-derived fuel (RDF) — conglomerated waste often composed of up to 50% plastic — is being burned globally in waste-to-energy incinerators, cement kilns, paper mills, and by other industries.

Julian Brown recently went viral after posting a video that showcased his work in the still nascent field of microwave pyrolysis. Julian Brown, a 21-year-old Atlanta native, recently went viral after ...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — South of Gaza City, along the Sea Road that runs beside the Mediterranean, Palestinian youth are producing fuel by melting plastic in makeshift burners. With limited ...

The EU is preparing stricter customs controls and new codes to prevent virgin plastic from being labeled as recycled.

In 2018, at a Dubai resort next to the blue-green waters of the Persian Gulf, Amin Nasser, CEO of Saudi Aramco, stood before an audience of hundreds of petrochemical executives to set out his vision ...

CHARLESTON — A new plastic-to-fuel plant coming to the Upper Kanawha Valley promises jobs and innovation — but critics say the facility could do more harm than good. Clean-Seas West Virginia, a ...

Across many urban neighborhoods in the Global South, plastic waste is being used not just as something to throw away but as a ...

If John Bordynuik has his way, homes will be heated with milk jugs, and cars will run on plastic bags. Bordynuik, president and CEO of JBI Inc., has invented a process to convert waste plastic into ...