DULUTH, Ga. (WTVM) - A 22-year-old inventor is gaining viral attention for what he calls “Plastoline,” a fuel he says is made from plastic waste. Julian Brown says he uses a process called microwave ...

Fuel theft has spiked in Ecuador as security forces grapple with a growing front in the country’s crime war that recent diesel subsidy cuts could exacerbate. The armed forces discovered 1,095 illegal ...

A University of Delaware-led team has developed a new catalyst that converts plastic waste into liquid fuels faster and more efficiently than existing methods, offering a potential solution to growing ...

Plastics are valued for their durability, but that quality also makes them difficult to break down. Tiny pieces of debris known as microplastics persist in soil, water and air and threaten ecosystems ...

Ali Kamali, a doctoral candidate in chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, inspects a sample of liquid fuel created from plastics. He is part of a UD-led research team ...

Researchers have developed another way to deal with plastic waste, and the one-step process turns it into fuel. The low-energy method involves low temperatures and produces gasoline, chemical raw ...

Yale researchers unveiled a 3D-printed carbon column reactor that can convert 66% of polyethylene plastic into fuel chemicals without costly catalysts. The breakthrough addresses major efficiency and ...

The market reaction to Friday’s dour nonfarm payrolls data could have been worse. Sure, it’s not good to see stocks hit a fresh record high only to finish down on the day. But the S&P 500 SPX ...

Plastic is littering the entire planet, and scientists are trying to turn it back into a usable fuel source by heating it to very high temperatures. The process is not efficient enough to be feasible ...

Experts estimate that the global production and disposal of plastics emits nearly 2 billion tons of greenhouse gases per year. The vast majority of these materials end up in landfills, but what if we ...