The concept of converting plastic back into crude oil is not new. Past efforts have centred on pyrolysis, a process of applying intense heat in reactors to break down plastic molecules.

China stopped taking our plastic waste. Now we're drowning in it. America has long had a plastic problem. It's an urgent question — what do we do with the 40 million tons of plastic waste we ...

Scientists from Sophia University in Japan and Università di Pavia in Italy recently published a study on the development of ...

LSU researchers have created a new, low-cost way to break down plastic, a potential breakthrough that could save billions of dollars and eliminate billions of tons of plastic pollution.

In his M.S. thesis work, Zach studied fast pyrolysis of mixed plastic waste for upcycling to fuels and aromatics, using Pyrolysis-GC-MS techniques. Zach's current research focuses on understanding how ...

The proposed facility in Worksop would use a process of thermal decomposition - called pyrolysis - to break down plastic at very high temperatures so the components can be used again, according to ...

The report echoes other findings and a California lawsuit that only a small percentage of plastic that enters the pyrolysis process results in reusable plastic materials, specifically propylene ...

Mark Dalton, whose business would convert the waste into fuel, said plastic would not be burned. Pyrolysis is a process which breaks down plastic by heating it and turning it into a gas ...

Polyethylene is the most commonly produced plastic, used for plastic bags ... was measured using a technique called pyrolysis ...