Enzymes found in landfills around the world may be able to break down plastic waste. Some 11 billion metric tons of plastic ...

The sight of a whale washed ashore with a stomach full of plastic is a poignant ... As a result, the majority of plastic waste ends up in landfills, incinerators, or the environment.

Modern plastics are full of thousands and thousands of toxic additives ... has gotten a really bad reputation with respect to plastics. When you send plastic to a landfill, it gets buried in the Earth ...

One of the most expensive misuses of local taxpayer dollars in the U.S. is the amount of money spent disposing of recyclable ...

CalRecycle’s draft rules detailed how plastic packaging producers would avoid plastic ending up in the landfill, but retailers and farmers said they ...

“The global balance sheet of trash today is astronomical,” he ... bottles have been discarded and another garbage truck full of plastic has entered the seas,” he writes.

Over 22,000 students attend Diablo Valley College’s two campuses. And with such high enrollment numbers comes a predictable ...

Enzymes found in landfills around the world may be able to break down plastic waste. Some 11 billion metric tons of plastic are projected to ...