Rangeley Lakes Regional School students collaboratively created a permanent, multi-panel art installation using recycled plastic.

Amid a global plastic-pollution crisis, artist Erik Jon Olson turns his own plastic waste into quilted works of art in which ...

The $30,000 project will feature a monolith and bench created out of recycled and reused materials, including used bicycle ...

How Breckenridge is turning old plastic snow sleds into art. The sleds are finely shredded and used to make everything from carabiners to earrings or decorative bowls ...

Many plastics that carry the “chasing arrows” symbol, like soda cups and yogurt tubs, are rarely recycled. A new California law is raising the bar.

Anna Rice teaches ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander how to make art using plastic utensils, paper towel tubes and water bottles Turn trash into treasure! In this fun and easy DIY video, we’re ...

Only 9.5% of plastic materials produced globally in 2022 were manufactured from recycled materials. The findings, reported in Communications Earth & Environment, are part of a comprehensive ...

The artists Beverly Barkat and Germane Barnes play with discarded plastic — including bottles, cups and printer cartridges — to explore the possibilities of reinventing waste.

Illusions found in recycled art and at a Boston museum Discarded toys become stunning creations, while a museum puts visitors inside the illusion ...

Your black plastic kitchen utensils aren’t so toxic after all. But you should still toss them, group says Black plastic cooking utensils in a container on kitchen counter.

A recent study found black plastic kitchen tools had high levels of toxins - but researchers admit they overestimated the risk.