Plastic pollution is often hidden in plain sight – behind positive “eco” or “recyclable” labels, within supply chains and ...

U.K.-based paving company Oltco recently hit a new milestone with Recycle Bound — a new resin-bound paving solution designed ...

Turn old bottles into beautiful creations with these DIY best out of waste bottle craft ideas! 🧴 Use plastic or glass bottles to make vases, lamps, flower pots, bird feeders, pen holders, or hanging ...

More than 400 million metric tons of plastic is produced annually, and only a small fraction is recycled. The rest ends up in landfills, or leaks into the natural environment, which is impacting ...

Damaging as it is, food waste has an end point: it decomposes, breaks down, and returns to the soil. Plastic packaging ...

From surgical masks and gloves to disposable hospital gowns and aprons, the COVID-19 pandemic is creating a mountain of plastic medical waste that is polluting the land and sea – alarming doctors and ...

As talks on a global treaty on plastic waste approach, an environmental group has found that only a handful of U.S. states are taking meaningful action to rein in the plastic waste that harms ocean ...

Almost every aspect of a human’s daily life today is entangled with fossil fuels. A plastic toothbrush, a synthetic garment, or even a simple painkiller—each of these items started out as crude oil.

Plastic waste is an exploding global problem, with minimal recycling resulting in incineration as a common disposal practice. Shipments of plastic products and plastic waste from the Global North to ...

To test the system, the researchers tried the reactor out on a sample of common plastic known as polyethylene. The results are impressive: They report a record- high yield of nearly 66% of the plastic ...