Discover the true scale of the plastic pollution crisis and explore the latest breakthroughs in recycling and repurposing plastic waste. From fashion brands crafting apparel with recycled materials to ...

A group of students in Ukraine whose lives have been interrupted by the four-year war with Russia hasn't lost the spirit for ...

The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...

Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a familiar household chemical: acetic acid, the main ingredient in vinegar.

The company announced an investment from Rainmatter, a sustainability-focused initiative affiliated with the financial firm ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, recycling plastic has been a losing game — too slow, too expensive, and too limited in scope. Most methods rely on ...

Scientists have found a way to turn plastic into acetic acid using a source that's present in abundance.

Sahadat Hossain, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, shows a sample of recycled plastic in asphalt and a bag of recycled plastic used to make the asphalt, May 1, ...

A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New York. Credit - Hulton Archive/Epics—Getty Images Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) — A dirty diaper may be gross to you, but one Texas company believes it could be the secret ingredient to helping answer an environmental question: How do we clean up all of our ...

Dr. Byungwook Hwang’s research team from the CCS Research Department at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has successfully developed a process that applies the circulating fluidized bed ...

CEBU City is looking back at an old tradition to solve a modern garbage problem. Mayor Nestor Archival announced on Monday, March 9, 2026, that the city is deve ...