Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Large proportions of plastic waste don't get recycled. Westend61 via Getty Images Plus In 1950, global plastic production was ...

Circtec says its plant in Delfzijl, the Netherlands, will use pyrolysis technology to process some 50,000 metric tons per year of end-of-life tires.

As part of a new partnership with Teijin Ltd., composite recycling consultancy Fuji Design Co. Ltd. has begun a number of R&D projects to prove out its controlled pyrolysis process for ...

14 million motor vehicles are scrapped in the EU each year, representing an enormous waste problem. Seventy-five percent of a modern car is composed of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, which are ...

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 ...

After nearly three years of consideration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is standing pat on regulation of pyrolysis operations and will continue to view them as incineration. The move buys ...

AKRON, OHIO (Nov. 18, 12:30 p.m. ET) — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued recycling technology company Polyflow LLC a patent for its pyrolysis process that converts mixed and contaminated ...

PROVIDENCE – Three years ago, after state regulators rejected a proposal in West Warwick to build a medical waste-to-energy plant, Gov. Dan McKee went a step further and signed a statewide ban on ...