Plastic waste is becoming an increasing problem, with 50 million tonnes of single-use plastic being produced each year.

What if the life cycle of the plastic bottle was circular? Where a used plastic bottle was returned to its original components, ready to be made into a new plastic bottle instead of possibly ending up ...

A drug to treat Parkinson's disease can be made from waste plastic bottles using a pioneering method, a study shows. The ...

Scientists engineer E. coli to convert PET plastic bottle waste into L-DOPA, a primary treatment for Parkinson’s disease.

A method for manufacturing high-density polyethylene (HDPE) bottles has been introduced by Polyplastics, Colgate-Palmolive, and Plastics Technology International (PTI), promising significant ...

They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, or in this case, therapeutic, as a pioneering method turns waste plastic ...

A research team has demonstrated that a material called a metal-organic framework (MOF) is a stable and selective catalyst for breaking down polyester-based plastic into its component parts. Only ...

Researchers have developed electrochemical methods that break down waste PET plastic, the material in most disposable water ...

Plastic waste has long been treated as one of the world’s most persistent environmental problems. Bottles pile up in ...

Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your ...