A used plastic bottle might have another life beyond the recycling bin. Researchers at Penn State say discarded plastic of that kind could eventually contribute to batteries used in EVs, phones, and ...

And what if that battery could be fueled by nuclear waste? That’s the future scientists are working toward in DARPA’s “Rads to Watts” program, which aims to create lightweight batteries with a high ...

Every year, billions of phones are discarded globally, many of them with perfectly usable processors. At the same time, the ...

In the world of market competition, having the best and brightest package could send company sales into the millions. On the ...

Paris-based textile-to-textile regeneration company Reju has opened its first research and development facility in the United ...

Clothes that cannot be used by the plant are broken down into fibres through a mechanical process. The fibres are sold to spinning mills to make yarn, which is then turned into new clothes. This ...

Old hard drives, servers, and industrial electronics contain valuable rare earths that are often lost before they can be ...

A major success story at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is arguably more amazing than most "treasure from trash" stories. It is about a company that continuously extracts from a potentially dangerous ...