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This year's 2025 Circular Plastics Challenge asked participants to incorporate artificial intelligence into their work.

Plastic Free July is designed to help people reduce their use of single-use plastics and improve recycling practices.

Mango Materials, a California-based company that creates biodegradable polymers for use in plastic products, has been scaling up and commercializing a biomanufacturing technology that utilizes methane ...

Back in 2008, artist Aurora Robson, who creates ethereal, starburst-like sculptures out of plastic, started Project Vortex, a collective of artists and designers who create and support projects to ...

More retailers are launching pilot programs to phase out single-use plastic bags and replace them with reusable bags. The Consortium to Reinvent the Retail Bag, managed by Closed Loop Partners ...

French environment services provider Veolia has invested 70 million pounds ($95 million) to build its largest yet plastic ...

An October report from OECD projects that global plastics production will grow by 70% by 2040. That's an increase from 234 million tons in 2000 to 736 million tons. Plastics use reductions ...