Defying scepticism, two women in Maharashtra transformed tonnes of plastic waste into a sustainable, low-cost home.

Sabah's fight against plastic pollution took a step forward after a four-month zero waste community project at a village in ...

People walking the streets of downtown Petaluma, California, started seeing something new on the sidewalks in summer. Alongside the usual trash cans and recycling containers were large purple bins ...

With tailored, evidence-based policies, the U.S. can relieve the burden on local and municipal governments, communities, and ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Plastic, made up of 99% oil, often seen as a plan B for the petrochemical industry Difficulties dealing with plastic ...

"We believe that this … strategy offers a promising route for upcycling waste plastics," Tsinghua University researcher Zedong Zhang said, per Phys.org. Tsinghua's team in China collaborated with an ...

In 2019, an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense released a call for research projects to help the military deal with the copious amount of plastic waste generated when troops are sent to work ...

The amount of plastic waste around the world continues to grow, ushering in a rising environmental, economic and public health crisis that affects everyone and everything on the planet. A 2022 report ...

Using bacteria to take a bite out of plastic pollution is not new. But can the same microbes be used as a food source? By Sara Talpos/Undark Published Aug 22, 2024 8:33 AM EDT This article was ...