Have you ever stopped to think about what happens to those little orange pill bottles after you finish your prescription? Every year, around 200 billion of these bottles are produced worldwide, and ...

There is no shortage of news about plastic’s ubiquity or its harms. Microplastics are in clouds, drinking water, playgrounds and our blood. Marine mammals are entangled in and ingest plastic at ...

One of the biggest environmental issues in our modern world is plastic, which has become integral in the manufacturing of everything from electronics to furniture. Our reliance on plastic has led to a ...

WUHAN, CHINA - OCTOBER 29: (CHINA OUT) A worker sorts used plastic bottles at a plastics recycling mill which is ceasing production as the global financial crisis starts to bite in China's recycling ...

A Scottish plastics recycling startup has recently secured a round of Series A funding to scale its pilot recycling plant into a fully operational commercial facility, Packaging Gateway reported. With ...

One way to help tackle the growing plastic pollution problem could be all around us: microscopic bacteria and fungi. A growing body of research has identified a host of microorganisms, some of which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Solvent-based recycling and AI could lead to cleaner, smarter solutions for managing the world’s growing plastic problem. (CREDIT: ...

Recent studies estimate the average American consumes a credit card's worth of plastic each week. That's equivalent to ingesting 50 plastic grocery bags each year. Now, area innovators are coming up ...

As the planet drowns in plastic waste, companies are devising bizarre alternatives, including stretchy seaweed, reverse vending machines and bamboo utensils, to save us all. Plastic waste often does ...

The world is producing twice as much plastic waste as two decades ago. Most of this is single-use plastic. You open a product and “throw away” the plastic, but one might ask, where does it go?

It takes more than 1,000 years for plastic to decompose. Every plastic bottle, straw and container ever thrown away is still intact and somewhere on earth. The plastic problem affects every part of ...

In a recent conversation about the asphalt industry with Charles Goodhart, Executive Director Pennsylvania Asphalt Pavement Association (PAPA), he said, "Our industry has historically been seen as the ...