Ecobricks, a popular social-media trend in which individuals collect every bit of their personal, non-recyclable plastic ...

A research team has demonstrated that a material called a metal-organic framework (MOF) is a stable and selective catalyst for breaking down polyester-based plastic into its component parts. Only ...

The Carlsbad City Council recently passed a policy banning plastic bottles at both public and private events sponsored by the city. According to city documents, the intent of the ban is to “reduce ...

We are seeing some promising advances in the world of plant-based plastics, and not just from research groups at the cutting edge of materials science, but from traditional purveyors of ...

Papacks is betting its Fiber-Bottle can finally deliver what other fiber formats haven’t: a plastic-free bottle that’s recyclable in paper streams and ready to scale.

Scientists at the U. of Copenhagen have converted plastic waste into a CO2 capture solution, tackling two global issues - ...