Beverage manufacturers’ focus on sustainability has seen plastic bottle manufacturers investing in advancements to support ...

In an ideal world, plastics wouldn’t be a problem, leading to a pollution crisis that degrades ecosystems and endangers human ...

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Most of the 360-billion-plus metric tons of plastic manufactured each year isn’t recycled. Some of that’s due to laziness—in the U.S., where plastic bottles can be easily recycled almost everywhere, ...

Scientists invented a way to make compostable plastics break down within a few weeks with just heat and water. This advance will potentially solve waste management challenges at forward operating ...

Every year, Adidas makes more than 400 million pairs of sneakers. These shoes are part of the 900 million items–including clothing and sports equipment–the 70-year-old German conglomerate puts out ...

A new analysis released today by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) found that if just 50% of plastics in the municipal ...

A new way of chemically recycling single-use plastics might offer an incentive to keep them out of landfills. Ivan Radic via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 New research may offer a way to keep single-use ...

From your phone battery to the Empire State Building, every single thing we as a species have created was made from things we found in nature. This includes, of course, plastics. A recent Reddit ...