Researchers create supercapacitors from waste PET plastic bottles that could power electric vehicles and electronics within 5 ...

A new startup is revolutionizing how textile and plastic waste are recycled, cutting costs and improving efficiency.

Reducing plastic use this year should be on everyone’s radar, although it won’t be easy. According to the United Nations, ...

As a result, plastics must be carefully sorted into relatively pure streams, which pushes up recycling costs and reduces efficiency. Mechanical recycling — the dominant method worldwide — involves ...

Four years after Germany phased out light plastic bags, how has the EU addressed plastic waste — and why do single-use items ...

In the 2008 Disney film Wall-E, a tiny robot finds himself alone on planet Earth, working to clean up a world decimated by trash and abandoned by humans who left it that way. Heartwarming as the film ...

Sahadat Hossain, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, shows a sample of recycled plastic in asphalt and a bag of recycled plastic used to make the asphalt, May 1, ...

Heavy industries such as aviation and chemical manufacturing contribute to about 20% of overall U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and will continue to depend on fossil fuels. While scientists are ...

Plastic waste and debris is a pressing concern for coastal communities like ours — harming marine ecosystems and leading to microplastics in our seafood. The bulk of single-use plastic products are ...

Once upon a time, before marijuana became legal (or partly legal) in most of the U.S., the only plastic involved with a pot transaction might have been a small baggie and a disposable lighter. (Or, ...