Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, ...

The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...

Photo Credit: @ janardhanhavanje/ Instagram There is a staggering amount of plastic waste — an estimated 2.6 million tons — floating around our oceans right now. India's government recently took steps ...

Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a familiar household chemical: acetic acid, the main ingredient in vinegar.

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, ...

The global plastic crisis has long been a ticking time bomb, but now, it seems, a revolution is underway. One company, Corsair Group International, is rewriting the narrative of waste management with ...

A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most "recyclable" objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected ...

Each year, billions of single-use plastic bottles end up in landfills or oceans. That waste problem keeps growing. Now, a new scientific breakthrough suggests those same bottles could help power your ...

Changes to household collections are part of wider moves to increase the recycling rates, which have stalled in recent years.

Plastic-infused asphalt can also save money. Because it lasts longer and resists cracking, cities may spend less on repairs and maintenance. In Rockwall, for example, early estimates suggest these ...

Today’s announced project is for the engineering and testing of an advanced waste management solution targeting both non-recyclable plastics and other forms of hazardous liquid waste. Using ...

FORT MYERS, Florida (WBBH) -- As pickleball's popularity surges across the Gulf Coast, two young entrepreneurs with ties to Florida Gulf Coast University are tackling the resulting plastic waste ...