The majority of the 300 million tons of plastic produced every year isn’t recycled, and recycling that does happen typically happens at an industrial scale in factories using equipment that can cost ...

Imagine taking heaps and heaps of earth-polluting, unusable plastic waste and actually transforming it into something constructive? Plastic pollution is a proliferating and increasingly overwhelming ...

Rather than throw out those plastic bags, how about use them to build a park bench or something else useful? Most recycling programs aren’t that good at keeping plastic out of the trash. In the U.S., ...

In a bid to limit the amount of plastic that ends up in landfills, three mechanical engineers in the city have hit on the idea of converting waste plastic into interlocking paver blocks and furniture ...