Only 7 percent of plastic waste in the United States is recycled each year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. A startup company in Niagara Falls says it can increase that amount and ...

Tensions in the Middle East often trigger concerns about rising gasoline prices. But disruptions to oil supplies could affect much more than the cost of filling up a car. That’s because crude oil is ...

The energy major brings pyrolysis-based recycling online at its Grandpuits site as part of its zero-crude transition strategy ...

As delegates from 184 countries begin talks in Geneva on a global treaty to curb plastic waste and pollution, the negotiations that began in 2022 are nowhere close to an agreement. Geneva hosts the ...

Oil is a key feedstock for everything from plastics to cosmetics. Over time, we’re likely to see less oil burned for ...

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Plastics are made from crude oil and petroleum by-products, so a team of scientists decided to explore if they could turn waste cooking oil into a useful plastic material, and they succeeded.

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