Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...

A new type of adhesive that can be cleanly removed from plastic bottles and packaging before disposal could lead to better-quality recycled plastic, a new study has shown. The adhesives used to stick ...

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Did you know that kitchen sponges can be home to billions of bacteria, outnumbering those found on a toilet seat? Your ...

In 2021, thousands of used milk bottles in Shanghai found a second life. More than 6,000 bottles, along with other plastic ...

If you live in one of the 10 U.S. states with a bottle deposit program, you’re probably familiar with the idea of feeding your empty plastic bottles or aluminum cans into a machine and getting a few ...

The German Andreas Froese developed the idea in Honduras after seeing the buildup of plastic waste at local celebrations. The ...

The Ministry of Municipality has urged the public to dispose of recyclable plastic bottles in designated blue bins, ...

Plastic is a product that is ubiquitous in today's society, says Sarah Morath, Wake Forest professor of law and author of the book "Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It." A research team led by ...

Instead of building a road entirely from plastic, engineers mixed recycled plastic into a conventional asphalt mixture.