It all started in 2014 when Dave Hakkens, then a student at the Eindhoven Design Academy, released his design for a plastic recycling machine to the world for free. The aim was to make plastic ...

An ambitious project at UC Berkeley aims to take plastic and break it down to create new plastic. Scientists at Berkeley said they have discovered a new way to vaporize plastic bottles and bags. What ...

An open tender has been launched by the Waste & Resources Action Programme inviting bids which will increase the use of recycled plastic materials within the Electrical and Electronic Equipment ...

Sand, rock, and melted plastic now sit beneath the tires on a quiet residential street in Oahu. For nearly a year, cars have ...

Chemists and innovative recyclers are trying to turn gloves, pipette tips, and other laboratory plastic waste into something useful ...

At a New Hampshire facility, agricultural plastics are compacted together. Photo courtesy Guy Crosby/Community News Service Natalie Bankmann is a reporter for the Community News Service, part of the ...

Turning plastic bags into park benches has been the goal of an enthusiastic Community Outreach Ministry effort at Shepherd of the Prairie Lutheran Church in Huntley. For the past two years, church ...

Recycled plastics are promoted on everything from water bottles and fleece jackets to shopping bags and yogurt cups: "This ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Tucked into a green-sounding federal recycling bill filed ...