It's Earth Week, here's how consumers and companies are trying to improve waste management across the country.

Among the various plastic recycling methods being explored, one promising approach is biological plastic recycling, also ...

As the crisis in the Middle East continues, much of the public focus has been on fuel prices and the cost of living. But ...

Recycled polyester only works when clothes become new clothes. While investment is growing, the fashion industry’s reliance ...

Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are winners of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating a plastic that can be infinitely recycled. Can you design a new type of plastic that ...

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BUFFALO, N.Y. – Recycled plastics are promoted on everything from water bottles and fleece jackets to shopping bags and yogurt cups. This product is made with XX% recycled plastic. Verifying such ...

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 ...

Households, schools and communities are being asked to record their plastic packaging waste as part of an annual survey documenting UK’s waste problem. Campaign group Everyday Plastic have already ...

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 ...