With ever more electric vehicles on the road, regulators and automakers are considering what can be done with the millions of batteries that power EVs after they're spent. Even when their useful life ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute engineering professor Yan Wang (right) in his lab with other researchers. Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have developed a new way of recycling ...

We could harvest more of these elements, but academic research suggests that an improbably high number of new mines would need to open at an unprecedented rate to meet soaring demand. The fact that ...

French start-up Fairmat recently announced a new round of funding to support the industrial scale-up of its solutions. Last January, at JEC World 2025, it unveiled two major innovations: FairPly, a ...

For years, the plastics industry’s narrative about recycling has been falling apart. Research and media investigations have revealed that it doesn’t make economic sense and that petrochemical ...

A study describes a new method of recycling silicone waste (caulk, sealants, gels, adhesives, cosmetics, etc.). It has the potential to significantly reduce the sector's environmental impacts. This is ...