Single-use plastic has always been a concern of Caitlin Broadbent, a sustainability technician at King’s College London. Each month, researchers in the institute’s Drosophila fly facilities discard ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

I used plastic food containers for most of my life — they’re affordable and accessible at most of the grocery stores I frequent. But, in recent years I’ve learned more about the potential dangers ...