Masses of plastic containers floating in the ocean are among the most sickening tales of environmental depredations. This isn’t just an aesthetic concern; all that discarded plastic too often ends up ...

Plastic is one of the world's biggest pollutants. But a new scientific discovery could transform the industry and its environmental footprint by capturing carbon dioxide from the air and using that to ...

Chemists have developed a catalytic process that turns the largest component of today's plastic waste stream, polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that are ...