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The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the ...

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The technique pioneered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory produces high-value-added chemicals from plastic waste without ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a method to convert a commonly discarded ...

The Global Impact Coalition (GIC; Geneva, Switzerland; today released a report on a pilot project that involves recycling ...

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The Problem with Biodegradable Plastics Biodegradable plastics are often presented as an answer to the global plastic ...