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Grocery bags and other trash could be melted down to yield useful products.

MIT Tech Review

A new chemical process could turn a quarter of our plastic waste into clean fuel.

The world’s landfill sites and oceans are being flooded with plastic. A mere 9% of the 8.3 billion tons of plastic produced over the last 65 years has been recycled, according to the United Nations. Over eight million tons of plastic flow into our oceans every year, harming wildlife. Read more ...


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