Agricultural waste is often seen as a disposal problem, but new research suggests it could be a powerful tool for climate change mitigation. A study published in Agricultural Ecology and Environment ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it was the ...

Researchers from Università di Pavia in Italy and Sophia University in Japan have created a novel microwave-induced pyrolysis technique that offers an economical and effective means of recycling ...

A joint research team led by Dr. Sang-Goo Jeon from the Bioenergy and Resources Upcycling Research Laboratory at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) and Dr. Jung-Oh Ahn from the BioProcess ...

DILLINGEN/SAAR, Germany—Pyrum Innovations A.G., a European firm that uses a patented pyrolysis method to convert end-of-life tires, is leading a joint venture in establishing a 20,000-ton-per-year ...

The growing emphasis on reducing the carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel-based power plants has increased the importance of harnessing clean and renewable sources such as wind to generate energy ...

Many analytical techniques are capable of quantifying microplastics and those larger than 20µm can be analysed by FTIR and ...

A Japan-Italy research team say they have developed a simple and convenient method for recovering copper wires from PVC cables that involves the use of microwave radiation and avoids the generation or ...

A recent article in Battery Energy outlines a method for converting cigarette filter waste (CFW) into carbon nanomaterials (CNMs) through a single-step, low-impact pyrolysis process. The goal is to ...