Most people use the words "upcycling" and "" as if they mean the same thing, but the two processes work in almost opposite directions. One breaks materials down to their raw form so they can be ...

One of the most misused words in the language is recycling. Reiner Pilz described what was really going on in 1994: "I call it downcycling. They smash bricks, they smash everything. What we need is ...

We’ve all heard about the importance of recycling – it’s a message that is constantly in front of us, whether it’s the triangular recycling symbol on packaging or an advertisement for an eco-friendly ...

With summer in full swing, many of us are hitting the road in search of the perfect holiday. But whether we’re traveling to the rural outskirts of town or to a far-away country, it’s important to ...

and upcycling them into electric vehicles. "We take a product that already exists and we upcycle it and electrify it for a clean air future." At this plant in Silverstone, Lunaz is developing its own ...

BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) backed Vanguard Renewables is acquiring Generate Upcycle’s North American organics recycling operations. The deal expands Vanguard Renewables’ network of organics recycling ...

Chemists at Cornell University have discovered a way to use light and oxygen to upcycle polystyrene—a type of plastic found in many common items—into benzoic acid, a product stocked in undergraduate ...

The UK firm Lunaz claims to have revealed what it calls the world’s most advanced upcycled electric vehicle—a recycled vehicle that does the recycling with a much lighter carbon footprint. Lunaz, ...