A study published in Nature Communications has shown that, rather than being discarded, plastics can be transformed into ...

Think of ocean plastic and you may picture bottles and bags bobbing on the waves, slowly drifting out to sea. Yet the reality ...

The Conversation reports on single-stream recycling, emphasizing its convenience but noting significant contamination issues ...

Just for a minute, think about how much of the plastic you use today will end up as trash. Drink bottles? Grocery bags? Food wrappers? If you live in the United States, it’ll probably add up to about ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

What would a month without buying any new single-use plastic products look like? It’s a tall order for many Americans, who go through about five pounds of plastic a week, according to Oxford ...

At K 2025, the Alliance to End Plastic Waste engaged with new and existing partners to scale up circularity efforts, focusing ...

Seventh-grader Ethan Lentz, 13, marvels as a liquid turns into gelatin Tuesday as Lexin Aldridge, a 14-year-old seventh-grader, adds a powder. All of the seventh- and eighth-graders at Wayne E.

Plastics recycling trade groups on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean have spent more than two years examining the differences ...

Plastic has become embedded in everyday life. That’s because for the last 70 years, the plastics industry convinced consumers to embrace the... Creating a throw-away culture: How companies ingrained ...