“The world’s commitment to ending plastic pollution is clear and undeniable,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), when the fifth negotiation session for an ...

The Idea2Product lab is a makerspace at Colorado State University that provides engineering supplies and equipment for CSU and K-12 students. While it provides a variety of services, its main focus is ...

Single-use plastic might just be the most insane act of collective self-harm humanity commits every single day. Each year, the United Nations Environment Programme estimates that we discard a ...

YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP via Getty Images The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment. Consumers ...

A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New York. A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- You may take the extra time to recycle plastic shopping bags by bringing them to a retailer's plastic bag recycling bin. For months, the I-Team and ABC news tracked plastic bags that ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California just gave plastic producers until 2032 to make all their packaging recyclable or compostable — the most ...

A UK company provides a regional recycling loop for desktop 3D printing waste. The company, 3D Printing Waste, is pitching a ...