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 ...
Methods that don't employ a catalyst, though, tend to have low rates of converting the waste into products of use. For this project, the researchers found a way around both of these obstacles and ...
ASHLEY, Indiana—The bales, bundles and bins of plastic waste are stacked 10 feet high in a shiny new warehouse that rises from a grassy field near a town known for its bright yellow smiley-face water ...
Picture this: a 21-year-old backyard scientist in Alabama, Julian Brown, sweeps away some dirt and leaves from his homemade solar- and generator-powered, 10-magnetron-powered pyrolysis microwave ...
The new method converts waste plastic into pyrolysis oil, which contains valuable olefins used in various industries. This process offers an opportunity to derive high-value alcohols worth up to ...
Workers inspect a Quantafuel pyrolysis plant in Denmark. Quantafuel, which runs this plant in Skive, Denmark, is collaborating with BASF’s ChemCycling project to turn pyrolysis oil into chemicals.