If you scroll through social media or click through trending lifestyle sites, you'll likely stumble across a claim that ...

Scientists have discovered a way of making a drug for Parkinson’s disease from used plastic bottles, saying it shows how waste materials can be “reimagined as valuable resources”. Developed by a team ...

The approach harnesses the power of bacteria to transform post-consumer plastic into L-DOPA, a frontline medication for the ...

Musicians played an enormous plastic bottle marimba, a wall of tuned glass bottles, discarded flower pots, cooking pans and a ...

Not many pill bottles are getting recycled in the U.S. despite them being made of commonly recyclable material. A new Closed Loop Partners report calls for collaboration across the value chain to ...

In England, household recycling is about to have a huge shake-up.

The increased number of small-run SKUs dictated by consumer preference has changed the filler design philosophy,” he says.

Households in England will be affected by changes to bin collections this month aimed at simplifying waste sorting.

Phallon Tullis-Joyce is squirting deer blood into the dirt. “Blood and water,” the Manchester United and United States ...

Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, ...