A new report from a National Academies of Sciences panel on making plastics greener looked at its use in packaging, building ...

As part of a new web-based initiative, the Waste & Resources Action Programme is seeking to hear from manufacturers and suppliers of construction sector products containing recycled plastic. WRAP has ...

Researchers are warning Canada needs to do more about the amount of plastic waste generated by the construction industry. A recent report found that a single large institution generates about 700,000 ...

New research for the state of Minnesota regarding the use of recycled plastic in both asphalt and concrete road construction shows promise for that approach. "The increasing demand for sustainable ...

Construction has begun on a $220 million, state-of-the-art recycling facility in Lost Hills that will extract a variety of plastics and metals from 2,000 tons per day of waste material from a nearby ...

As the world marks UN World Cities Day on 31 October—a call to make cities more sustainable—a new international study ...

The US-based startup, founded by Rolex Laureate Miranda Wang, has transformed its LifeCycled™ waste into products such as ...

Nigeria doesn’t have enough roads, and it’s making life harder for people, especially in rural areas. The Nigerian government ...

We have adopted a disposable lifestyle in which around 50% of plastic is used once and then thrown away. Today, single-use plastics present some of the biggest environmental hazards because plastic ...

I’m a dedicated recycler. I fret when I see people throwing garbage in with soda cans and empty water bottles. I’ve even been known to rescue recyclables from the trash — at my house, for sure, but ...

Sophia Garcia’s favorite thing about Cal football games is talking trash — literally. The UC Berkeley sophomore works on the Cal Zero Waste staff, which launched an effort to swap out single-use cups ...