Using bacteria to take a bite out of plastic pollution is not new. But can the same microbes be used as a food source? In 2019, an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense released a call for ...

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 ...

Seventh graders collect over 6,000 pieces of plastic waste in week-long project ...

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 ...

Sustainable Classrooms grew out of one founder’s travels in Southeast Asia and a simple but ambitious idea: turn plastic ...

The plant might seem an unlikely poster child for the fight against plastic pollution, but cement kilns are central to the ...

At the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University​, an incredible collaboration is taking place between a 16-year-old high school student and the medical staff.

The plastics crisis is no longer just an environmental debate. It is becoming an economic, regulatory, healthcare, and industrial emergency. The world now produces more than 400 million metric tons of ...

Canadian researchers with Light House found that 77% of plastic collected at construction sites was recyclable. It recommends ...