They may be convenient for some, but plastic products pose an immense problem when they end up polluting oceans around the ...

A Curtin University-led paper, "The Use of Plastic as a Household Fuel among the Urban Poor in the Global South" published in ...

Straws have emerged as one of the leading contributors to the plastic pollution crisis, frequently appearing on beaches ...

Plastic Back has partnered with a U.S.-based recycler to scale its innovative low-temperature chemical recycling technology, which converts hard-to-recycle plastics like PVC into valuable byproducts.

The European company Reju may have developed the polyester recycling technology the textile industry needs. The question is ...

The bioplastics company, with an office in Shelton, collaborated with a UConn marine sciences team to evaluate the product’s ...

A six-month pilot project to test whether reusable soap and detergent dispensers at informal grocery stores, known as spaza ...

Straws account for only about 0.025 per cent of ocean plastic waste, so their removal alone won’t solve the crisis. But by targeting such a visible and easily replaceable product, this movement ...

The world is miserable at recycling plastics. Currently, just 10–15% of the plastic waste we generate annually is recycled — with the rest incinerated, buried in landfill or dumped as litter 1, 2.

If only the story had ended there. Despite that legislative success, the poorer nations of the world have never stopped being ...

The executive order Trump signed will undercut the former administration’s 2022 initiative to phase out single-use plastics, including straws, containers and bottles, from federal buildings by 2032 ...