Paper pellets make great projectiles, just ask any schoolkid. Paper Shooters, rifles made primarily out of cardboard, can fire those paper pellets up to a distance of 25 yards, lending a degree of ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—On a Friday afternoon in mid-January, college students hugged themselves as they lumbered through the University of North Carolina campus. Temperatures teetered just above freezing.

Cardboard is a remarkably versatile material and capable of being so much more than mere disposable packaging – as highlighted by the cardboard bike, helmet, and church. We can now add functional toy ...

UNC-Chapel Hill is asking the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality to update its air permit to allow it to burn recycled paper-and-plastic pellets at its Cogeneration power plant on Cameron Avenue ...

UNC-Chapel Hill has withdrawn its application to burn pellets made of paper and plastic scraps instead of coal in its power plant on Cameron Avenue. The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s ...

A view of the cogeneration plant operated by the University of North Carolina, located a half-mile from the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News This story originally ...