Picture this: a 21-year-old backyard scientist in Alabama, Julian Brown, sweeps away some dirt and leaves from his homemade solar- and generator-powered, 10-magnetron-powered pyrolysis microwave ...

Transportation officials in multiple states are testing whether roads made from grocery bags, juice cartons, printer ink cartridges, or other discarded plastic can make pavement last longer, save ...

How Are Plastic Bottles Made? Plastics are made from oil or natural gas, which are made of molecules called hydrocarbons. When you heat hydrocarbons to very high temperatures, they break down into ...

Marine plastic waste is a huge problem, but non-profit the Ocean Cleanup has been taking a bite out of floating trash in oceans and rivers for the last few years. Now pop-rock band Coldplay is about ...

Environmentalists in Indonesia keen to send a message about the world’s worsening ocean plastics crisis have created a museum made entirely from plastics, to convince people to rethink their habits ...

No plastic is truly recyclable — not even the water bottles and milk jugs that people usually toss into their blue bins. According to a new report released on Monday by Greenpeace USA, no plastic ...

California is banning single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other retailers, after an earlier ban was blamed for making the waste problem worse. Here, a worker pulls a plastic bag from a ...