Sand, rock, and melted plastic now sit beneath the tires on a quiet residential street in Oahu. For nearly a year, cars have ...

Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your ...

Plastic is one of the world’s most ubiquitous materials, essential to daily life as we know it. Production is growing at a rate of 3.4 percent—three times faster than our global population growth.

The Plastic Reduction Alliance played a game of “Is it recyclable?” Wednesday night. “For the longest time, I thought any plastics I take into my home, I just take to the plastics recycling facility ...

Instead of tossing those plastic containers that fruit comes in directly into the recycle bin, try repurposing them in ...

For yoghurt and quark pots, around 15% of recyclable material is lost. NTCP, TNO and partners are investigating how to ...

In a new study, scientists from the universities of Portsmouth and Manchester report that a specially engineered enzyme can ...

Hawaii has a plastic problem. The island state faces economic and logistical challenges in recycling plastic waste, including marine debris that lingers in its ocean waters. Researchers in Hawaii are ...

According to the Brussels-based firm Recovinyl, the recycling of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) in the United Kingdom continues to increase and is forecast to reach 50,000 metric tons by the end of 2011.

University of Edinburgh researchers have used bacteria to break down plastic waste and turn it into a Parkinson's drug, ...