A groundbreaking discovery led by the University of St. Andrews has found a way to turn ordinary household plastic waste into the building block for anti-cancer drugs. Household PET (polyethylene ...

Move over crude oil, scientists have found a way to turn plastic waste into paracetamol, also known as acetaminophen, using a common bacterium. The breakthrough, developed by researchers at the ...

(CN) — One way to tackle the ever-growing problem of plastic waste? Turn it into a useful product. That’s the upshot of a study published Monday in Nature Chemistry. In the study, a team of ...

As the global plastic pollution crisis intensifies, converting mountains of waste into valuable industrial raw materials has become a major priority for scientists and industry. Recently, a research ...

Researchers turned hard-to-recycle plastic into hydrogen using battery acid. This circular upcycling system tackles multiple problematic waste streams at once, the scientists claim.