Mac Chen and Ed Gadasu had the same considerations when it came to their senior design project: they wanted something to round out their studies of the materials field and something that felt ...

We’ve been working on these pendants for months, perfecting the designs and creating prototypes. Recycling plastic into pendants showcases beauty from waste, turning once-discarded material into ...

According to international research, between 150 million and 190 million tons of single-use plastic products were produced globally in 2021. That number is expected to triple by 2060, with half ending ...

This kind of innovation makes daily life easier. Researchers discover incredible way to make use of old plastic water bottles ...

A new federal government report finds major potential to use recycled plastic in infrastructure items like pipe but also highlights significant economic and environmental challenges to growth in other ...

Designing bikinis might seem like an unusual way to save the environment. But Byron Bay local Nisha Abey is doing just that with her new range of recycled swimwear. The 29-year-old designs her bikinis ...

Lego has ditched plans to use recycled plastic bottles to make its beloved building blocks after its efforts toward sustainability did not reduce the company’s overall CO2 emissions. Two years after ...

Last month, the American Chemistry Council, a petrochemical industry trade group, sent out a newsletter highlighting a major new report on what it presented as a promising solution to the plastic ...

Plastic is cheap to make and shockingly profitable. It’s everywhere. And we’re all paying the price. On a Saturday last summer, I kayaked up a Connecticut river from the coast, buoyed by the rising ...

There’s no way to stop our planet’s plastic consumption entirely; that genie is already out of the (plastic) bottle, and it will take government and private sector intervention to make a major ...

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, almost 94 tons of municipal solid waste were recycled and composed in 2018 – about 32%. But there's also the looming issue of contamination, rendering ...