Discover the fascinating world of DIY science projects with our step-by-step guide on how to make a vacuum cleaner using a ...

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In a first for Texas, Sahadat Hossain, director of the Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability and a professor of civil ...

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.

(You actually don’t even need plastic pots to make molds—here’s a demonstration using plastic bottles.) Reuse Project for Garden has a helpful video demonstrating the process for making ...

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 ...

Plastic is ubiquitous. It’s in the clothes we wear, wrapped around the food we eat and in the toothpaste we use. It floats in the oceans and litters the snow on Mount Everest. Every year, the world ...

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 ...