Plastic has a recycling problem. Only about 9% of plastic gets recycled, and a majority of that waste comes from single-use items like plastic grocery bags. It’s partly a design problem — they’re made ...

In promising news for our humanity-burdened planet, a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge say they’ve built a machine that transforms both CO2 and plastic waste into sustainable fuel ...

Plastics are generally recycled back into oil in massive facilities, but a Japanese inventor has built a tabletop machine that can accomplish the same task safely and cleanly. It's called the Blest ...

In this Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018, file photo, a man walks on a mountain of plastic bottles as he carries a sack of them to be sold for recycling after weighing them at the dump in the Dandora slum of ...

When a young Dutch designer named Dave Hakkens released Plonebloks, a concept for a modular phone, it set the internet on fire and helped Google along the same path. The explosion of attention was an ...