A two-bedroom home with a bathroom, a kitchen, and a living room can be made from 14,000 plastic bottles and mud.

How Big Oil and Big Soda kept a global environmental calamity a secret for decades

Nzambi Matee hurls a brick hard against a school footpath constructed from bricks made of recycled plastic that her factory turns out in the Kenyan capital.

British product designer Lucy Hughes has invented a biodegradable plastic made from fish offcuts

The all-organic state of Sikkim is making disposable/reusable bamboo water bottles for tourists to encourage them to stop littering The Indian state of Sikkim made headlines recently for becoming the first 100% certified organic state in the world. The state also became the first in India to ban the use […]

Last year, China drastically cut back its imports of plastic waste to recycle. Now the U.S. and other wealthy nations must figure out what to do with their discards.

Do you ever wonder about the designers for the check-out lines at stores? Strategically placed piles of plastic crap at children’s eye level that are …

The creation of plastic in 1907 marks an important point in mankind and the history of Earth. It is the year in which we created one of the most durable, but also environmentally harmful materials and we are starting to face the consequences now. Because of its low manufacturing price, chances are that it will […]

Studies show humans consume tens of thousands of tiny, little pieces of plastic each year known as microplastics. But if you're drinking water primarily from plastic water bottles, that number increases significantly.

The 17-year-old, Angelina Arora, has been able to produce compostable plastic using prawn shells. This kind of plastic can decompose within 33 days.

Carlsberg and Coca-Cola back pioneering project to make ‘all-plant’ drinks bottles

French inventor figures out how to turn plastic waste into fuel A self-taught French scientist bankrolled by a French actor has come up with a brilliant solution to the problem of plastic waste. His machine — dubbed Chrysalis — converts hard-to-recycle plastic trash into 65% diesel, 18% gasoline, 10% gas and […]

At certain restaurants, guests go into a meal knowing they’ll take home leftovers. It’s the entire premise of Olive Garden’s “Buy One, Take One” special, in which diners get an entree at the restaurant and one to take home, starting at $12.99. But all those doggie bags add up to a lot of packaging; why can’t customers bring their own reusable containers for the restaurant to load up?

Seven Caribbean countries will ban the use of plastics in the year 2020 – The Yucatan Times

Why is most products’ lifespan so short, considering the advanced modern technological means of production? Enter planned obsolescence.

McDonald’s is replacing plastic cutlery with wooden utensils in Australia McDonald’s has announced a plan to remove plastic cutlery from all 900 of its restaurants in Australia by the end of the year. The fast food giant plans on replacing the enormous sources of plastic pollution with biodegradable wooden cutlery. […]