In 1950, global plastic production was about 2 million tons. It’s now about 400 million tons – an increase of nearly 20,000%. As a material, it has seemingly limitless potential. Plastic is ...

The company tried educational chatbots and cryptocurrency. Then nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, of movies and cars. Even a service to Catholic churches allowing them to manage their finances using ...

Alterra Energy has pulled out of a proposed plastics recycling plant in Sugarloaf, Pennsylvania, citing problems securing a lease for the facility. But the project has faced fierce opposition from ...

Regulators have spent tens of millions subsidizing ‘advanced’ recycling facilities, which release carcinogens and give off more greenhouse gases than making plastic from crude oil. Last year, I became ...

Two years after walking away from a proposed pyrolysis plant to process plastic waste in Georgia, Brightmark LLC is once again looking to develop such a facility in that state. This time, the San ...

Chemical recycler Plastic Energy has produced its first batch of Tacoil at its joint venture plant with Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) in Geleen, Netherlands, marking a key milestone on the road ...

A new West Virginia pyrolysis plant has started receiving used plastic feedstock as work begins to fine tune operations in advance of full commercial production expected later this year. Clean-Seas ...

An analyst with the Boston-based research firm says tonnage outputs at installed plastic pyrolysis systems largely are disappointing. The senior analyst of Lux Research says his own company’s forecast ...

Health concerns have been raised over plans to open the UK's first plastic film recycling facility. Endolys Ltd announced plans to install pyrolysis oil production units at the former Cleveland Bridge ...

It was shaping up to be the successor to the coke plant - a pyrolysis plant looking to fill the gap in Follansbee. Now, a new report shows those plans might not be as sustainable or successful as ...

Kevin A. Schug receives funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes for Health, ExxonMobil, and Weaver Consultants Group. He is affiliated with VUV Analytics, Inc. and ...