The adoption of any new policies such as bottle bills, reuse systems, EPR or certain food packaging bans could reduce disposal by 10% to 20% by 2040. Such changes could influence new jobs and ...

An ambitious project at UC Berkeley aims to take plastic and break it down to create new plastic. Scientists at Berkeley said they have discovered a new way to vaporize plastic bottles and bags. What ...

After draining a water bottle, it might be tempting to fill it back up from the tap without a second thought. But can you really reuse plastic water bottles? Plastic bottles don't seem to be going ...

You don't need an artistic eye to DIY a beautiful custom vase — it just takes an old plastic container and a stylish material ...

Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...

The joint project brings terahertz imaging into real-world recycling environments. Kun Peng (far left), Yi Zhu (far right) and Vanden Recycling representatives (center) meet at Oxford University to ...

Unilever, Procter & Gamble, and L'Oréal are among the participants in The Reuse City Canada Project, a city-scale reuse ...

Plastic waste collected from Vellingiri Hills in Tamil Nadu is being recycled by Recompose Recycling into furniture and a bus shelter in Coimbatore, creating a circular model for waste management.

Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...