Eight teenage innovators from Aga Khan High School have developed a groundbreaking way to turn plastic waste into affordable building materials, an idea that has won them a place to represent Uganda ...

Sustainable Classrooms grew out of one founder’s travels in Southeast Asia and a simple but ambitious idea: turn plastic ...

A discovery led by the University of St Andrews has found a way to turn ordinary household plastic waste into the building block for anti-cancer drugs. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

A Colombian company is turning plastic waste into modular homes in just five days. See how recycled bricks are shaking up ...

A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New York. A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

Many large consumer product companies are falling short of the plastics recycling targets they set several years ago. Observers say this failure has contributed to hard times for the companies that ...

A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most “recyclable” objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected in huge volumes. Yet even for this item, the reality of recycling is messy: ...

Scientists turn plastic waste into fuel using sunlight and water in a new study that could change how we manage pollution and energy.

A groundbreaking discovery led by the University of St Andrews has found a way to turn ordinary household plastic waste into the building block for anti-cancer drugs. Household PET (polyethylene ...