It all started in 2014 when Dave Hakkens, then a student at the Eindhoven Design Academy, released his design for a plastic recycling machine to the world for free. The aim was to make plastic ...

Discover how to create a DIY mini helicopter using recycled materials like a Red Bull can and a small plastic bottle. This step-by-step guide shows you how to build a functioning model helicopter, ...

An ambitious project at UC Berkeley aims to take plastic and break it down to create new plastic. Scientists at Berkeley said they have discovered a new way to vaporize plastic bottles and bags. What ...

Learn three easy ways to turn recycled plastic into useful projects.

Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...

Canadian organization plans to assess and enable recyclability of plastic scrap generated at 10 construction site projects in western Canada. Garron Dalby, who is serving as a site monitor as part of ...

Last week’s report on California’s abysmal plastics recycling rates made it clear that the state, and individual citizens, ...

The EU is preparing stricter customs controls and new codes to prevent virgin plastic from being labeled as recycled.

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Tucked into a green-sounding federal recycling bill filed ...