Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" in the video player above. HOUSTON, Tex.—When the news crew showed up outside a waste-handling business ...

Engaging in DIY tasks in your home or merely focusing on a project involves using the highest-grade adhesive for challenging plastics to ensure successful results. The temptation might arise to ...

A perfect storm has gathered over the custom metal fabrication business for years. So many are nearing retirement and looking ...

Chemists have developed a catalytic process that turns the largest component of today's plastic waste stream, polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that ...

Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" About 48 million tons of plastic waste are generated each year in the U.S., and very little of it is ever ...

The world produces around 250 million tons of plastic waste in municipalities in one year — plastic bottles, cigarette butts, plastic packaging and much more. Much of that waste — equivalent ...

Despite the planet’s growing plastic pollution crisis, petroleum-based polymers have become an integral part of modern life. They make cars and airplanes lighter and more energy efficient.

Red Deer Polytechnic (RDP) welding journeyperson Ben Rainforth earned a bronze medal and demonstrated his world class welding ...

Police arrested 41-year-old Michael Gonzalez on Sept. 11 after they found 205 fentanyl pills, 35.8 grams of heroin and 2.6 grams of meth in his vehicle, according to an affidavit for his arrest.

Ten single-family homes in Erie will get much-needed improvements to address health and safety concerns for residents after the funding was approved by the Weld County commissioners last month. The 10 ...