Leigh’s Brewing Co. plans to open this fall at the former Hopland Brewstillery in Holland Township, where the Ringling family ...

Humans generate a lot of plastic waste—more than 400 million metric tons a year. To bring this fact a bit closer to home, the U.S. produced an average of 0.75 pounds of plastic waste per person ...

If burning plastic-derived oils and gases doesn’t sound like recycling to you, the Michigan Legislature agrees, stating that “products sold as fuels are not recycled products.” Given this ...

As professors of chemistry who study chemical recycling at the universities of Michigan and North Carolina and at Kenyon College, we think that making fuel from plastic waste is the wrong way to ...

Anne McNeil, University of Michigan; Aleksandr V. Zhukhovitskiy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Yutan Getzler, Kenyon College (THE CONVERSATION) Humans generate a lot of plastic ...

The concept of “chemical recycling” is controversial because it is used to describe many different processes, some of which may be worse for the environment than disposing the plastic waste in a ...

The partnership was finalized within months of Michigan’s legislation passing in December 2022 with solid majorities in both the state House and Senate. Is burning plastic-derived products ...