The textile and meat-processing industries produce billions of tons of waste annually in the form of feathers, wool and hair, all of which are rich in keratin—the strong, fibrous protein found in hair ...

With plastic pollution at an all-time high, the need for biodegradable materials has never been higher. Most packaging is ...

Inside the historic Book Depository at Michigan Central, now home to Newlab’s innovation campus, Brittanie Dabney is quietly building a different kind of startup. Her company, EcoSphere Organics, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: “We are creating an industry from another industry’s waste,” Beenish Saba, lead author of the study from Ohio State University, said in a press ...

Scientists turn plastic waste into fuel using sunlight and water in a new study that could change how we manage pollution and energy.

A research team led by Assistant Professor Shogo Mori and Professor Susumu Saito at Nagoya University has developed a groundbreaking method of artificial photosynthesis that uses sunlight and water to ...

A new electrochemical system efficiently converts PET plastic waste into glycolic acid and hydrogen, using alternating pulses and a stable alloy nanocatalyst to enable continuous, membrane-free ...

Volunteers are being invited to help remove litter from the shoreline while taking part in an innovative project that ...