At the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University​, an incredible collaboration is taking place between a ...

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

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Black plastic containers: These are another popular choice for restaurants and while they are often made from recycled ...

Every hour, 2.5 million plastic bottles are thrown away in the United States. While many of us justify drinking from plastic bottles or buying our food in plastic containers by telling ourselves it's ...

Most of the “recyclable” plastic we all use ends up in the landfill. Its a logistics and economics problem. There needs to be a better way to handle this massive waste stream. A company called CRDC ...

The move comes as more and more consumers are looking to reduce the amount of plastic waste they produce.

Packaging giant Amcor has initiated exclusive negotiations to offload its waste management unit, ESE World, to an affiliate ...

Barry Friesen remembers the days when plastic wasn’t used on farms. “One of my first summer jobs was working as a farm hand on a dairy farm,” he recalls. “It would take a team of workers six weeks to ...