Plastic is now becoming as much of a problem as it has been a solution. Some say the global plastic waste crisis has reached a critical tipping point, that the oceans are swimming with microplastics, ...

A shockingly low percentage of the hundreds of millions of tons of plastic produced every year actually gets recycled.

This study developed and validated an AI-driven, transferable city-scale assessment framework for municipal living plastic waste. By aligning life-cycle environmental accounting with process-based ...

Only about 5% of plastic is recycled, and much of the plastic waste we generate ends up in our waterways and oceans Since moving to England a few months ago, I’ve noticed the use of more stringent ...

New solar reactor turns waste plastic and battery acid into hydrogen fuel and useful chemicals, offering a cleaner recycling ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A study published today in the weekly journal Science projects that at present rates the world's plastic waste will ...

The global plastic crisis has long been a ticking time bomb, but now, it seems, a revolution is underway. One company, Corsair Group International, is rewriting the narrative of waste management with ...

Landfills are overflowing with plastic trash. Serial inventor Jonathan Rothberg’s Protein Evolution found a solution: using AI to create enzymes that can recycle old polyester textiles into a material ...

A not-for-profit executive says Rwanda has been been setting up plastic recycling systems that yield results. Radhia Mtonga says the government of Rwanda has adopted specific laws and policies that ...

Plastic waste is a growing concern worldwide, and researchers have been working hard to find solutions to this critical issue. Recently, some potentially promising news has emerged from a study that ...