Using bacteria to take a bite out of plastic pollution is not new. But can the same microbes be used as a food source? In 2019, an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense released a call for ...

Van Dyk Recycling Solutions uses vertical integration to tackle the global plastic waste crisis through advanced processing.

A well-known international group conducted rigorous worldwide evaluations on both domestic and international suppliers in the same industry. After comprehensive assessments of technological ...

The numbers are staggering. According to one report, the world uses 500 billion plastic cups every year. It's estimated that 50 billion paper coffee cups are thrown away in the United States alone.

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Plastic, made up of 99% oil, often seen as a plan B for the petrochemical industry Difficulties dealing with plastic ...

People walking the streets of downtown Petaluma, California, started seeing something new on the sidewalks in summer. Alongside the usual trash cans and recycling containers were large purple bins ...

Those crinkly plastic cartons are so much more than just a single-use receptacle for storing your favorite fruit.

A new kind of building material is taking shape in a lab at the University of Michigan. The modular, flat black panels panel is the kind of wall-like material that’s used to clad the exterior of ...

Every one of us creates huge amounts of plastic waste. Whether from soda bottles, water bottles, or milk jugs, plastic ...

It took almost two months for Megan and her friends to collect plastic from residents and create the eco-bricks themselves. Once enough bricks were made, they constructed a planter, which now stands ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Environmental Center’s Rethink Waste Project has been awarded the highly competitive Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine Materials Management grant for its Reuse Bend initiative, with ...

When wildlife photographer Shawn Miller discovered Okinawa's hermit crabs living in plastic bottle caps instead of shells, he ...