A radical new process “vaporizes” plastic bags and bottles to help make recycled materials. American scientists say the innovative chemical procedure turns ubiquitous waste items into hydrocarbon ...

Imagine taking heaps and heaps of earth-polluting, unusable plastic waste and actually transforming it into something constructive? Plastic pollution is a proliferating and increasingly overwhelming ...

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have developed a drug for treating Parkinson's disease that is derived from waste ...

Chemists at UC Berkeley said they have created a new laboratory process that could represent a major step forward in recycling plastic products — from single-use bags commonly found in grocery stores ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Plastic waste is one of Mexico's toughest environmental challenges — but a new collaboration could help turn ...

A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most "recyclable" objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected ...

Tucson officials broke ground Wednesday on a new facility that will transform plastic waste into construction-grade building material. The city’s deal with ByFusion will result in a 10,000 square-foot ...

Despite being one of our most useful day-to-day tools, glass is a material that's rarely recycled due to complicated logistics. That's why researchers at the University of Portsmouth and their ...

Francis Thuti, Environmentalist and researcher is recycling plastic waste into cabro building blocks at Nanyuki town dumpsite. [Lydiah Nyawira, Standard] Persevering the scorching sun, he rummages ...

Every day, millions of tons of waste plastic are deposited in landfills, on the sides of our roadways and into the ocean, polluting our environment, adding to greenhouse gas emissions and killing ...