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Plastic is one of humanity's most useful, flexible, and inexpensive inventions. Inexpensive, that is, until you remember the massive environmental and health costs of plastic production and waste.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale researchers have created 3D-printed vanilla-flavored cookies derived from plastic bottles and agricultural waste using CRISPR-engineered yeast--a technology originally funded by NASA for deep space missions.
The University of British Columbia has taken low value timber waste and turned it into "wood foam" to replace plastic in packaging.
Researchers have developed a solar-powered reactor to break down hard-to-recycle forms of plastic waste – such as drinks bottles, nylon textiles and polyurethane foams – using acid recovered from old car batteries.
Who else remembers learning about recycling in grade school during the '80s? My class made posters, created campaigns, and all learned the "3 R's". It all made sense to my 9 year old brain and for about 3 decades I was a believer.
Recycling lithium-ion batteries – whether they're the large ones in your EVs or the small ones in your gadgets – is no easy task, as it requires specialized processes, high heat, and a range of chemicals to achieve.
Ever wonder what happens to those old Teflon-coated frying pans? Not a lot. Most get chucked into landfills.
Glass isn't as easy to recycle as we might think, so we need as many ways to turn it into new products as we can devise.
The United States, the world's largest plastic polluter, recycles a mere 5% of its household plastic waste.
There is growing awareness of the world's plastic waste challenges, so why isn't that translating into higher rates of recycling?
Libertarian Journalist John Stossel Debunks the Green 'Religion' of Recycling: 'A Dead End Street' (VIDEO)
A Texas woman curious about where recycled plastics actually end up decided to track her trash using Apple AirTags.
An innovative chemical procedure turns ubiquitous waste plastic items in our society into hydrocarbon building blocks for use in making new plastics.
In this video I show an easy way to make your own silicone waterproofing and use it to make fabric tarps.
Did you know that old tires can be used to make new, innovative concrete? Or to build strong, autonomous houses? The recycling of old car tires is among the most pressing environmental issues of today. Currently, only one-third of all waste tires in
A new report released Monday by Greenpeace suggests the recycling system in the US is 'a sham' after it found only five percent of the 51 million tons of plastic waste generated by US households in 2021 was recycled, which is largely due to the fact
Today, most dead solar panels wind up in shredders or landfills
From smartphones to laptops and EVs, lithium-ion batteries are everywhere. Now a new company breaks batteries down and extracts around 95% of the valuable materials for reuse, and investments are pouring in.
CREATING IMPACT FOR A BETTER WORLD
McDonald's UK will begin testing a new system of reusable, returnable cups to cut back on the demand for hot beverage to-go containers now that 600 billion of them are produced each year around the world.
The study explains that, like the batteries in older mobile phones, an EV battery at the end of its automobile life could still maintain 80% operating capacity and could be easily repurposed for jobs elsewhere in society.
Previously, China was accepting 7 metric tons of plastic waste from western countries for recycling but has since banned this in January 2018.
The process, which is said to be easily scalable for mass production, can produce an A4-paper-sized aerogel sheet from a single bottle
For months, a major recycling facility for the greater Baltimore-Washington area has been facing a big problem: it has to pay to get rid of huge amounts of paper and plastic it would normally sell to China. Beijing is no longer buying, claiming th
ReciclApp is filling a void in places where door-to-door recycling simply doesn't exist.
Break down and recompress trash to make new things. When humans move into new territory, we leave waste behind, and one of our most harmful byproducts is plastic. Dave Hakkens wants to solve the planet's plastic problem with a build-it-yourself hom
