Plastic bags. Plastic forks. Plastic straws. All are non-biodegradable, single-use plastics that you can’t traditionally recycle—meaning that they inevitably end up in our seemingly never-ending waste ...

People are getting creative with plastic waste around the world, and now Ecobricks wants to utilize plastic for building. They encourage people to pack soft plastic garbage into plastic bottles to ...

People often talk about global warming and the climate crisis, but what’s often overlooked is how this is intrinsically tied to the world’s plastic crisis. Plastics are produced from fossil fuels, and ...

MANILA, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Philippines is one of the so-called "sachet economies" where products are packed and repacked and then sold in one-off plastic packets. A 2019 study by research agency, ...

Plastic production is a huge problem, and it is increasing exponentially - by 448 million tons since 2015 (nationalgeographic.com). In a world that produces so much plastic, it is nearly impossible to ...

CONCORD, New Hampshire -- A New Hampshire company is redefining what it means to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Plastic Recycled makes products out of 100% plastic waste, creating a sustainable solution ...

Pack it in (Picture: Getty /Lisa Bowman/Metro.co.uk) According to Statista, only 44.2% of household plastic packaging was recycled in 2021. Greenpeace reports that over half of UK recycling is ...

Plastic. Before, a technological revolution, now an environmental curse, this material is now completely embedded into our everyday lives. Despite the rise of awareness about plastic pollution, its ...

We’ve all woken up to the reality of our plastic obsession and the impact it’s having on the environment – and now people are going to extreme lengths to avoid chucking it out. Rebecca Evans, a mother ...

Hong Kong-based start-up EcoBricks has developed a process to upcycle plastic waste from old washing machines into construction material, reducing carbon emissions and helping tackle Hong Kong’s ...

Indonesia has a problem with plastic. Like many developing countries, its rivers and canals are clogged with dense masses of bottles, bags and other plastic packaging. The army was even called in to ...