Since 2004, more than 9,000 groups in 45 states and more than 3.5 million people have participated in the company's cap recycling projects.

Malaysia says it is no longer accepting plastic waste from a handful of nations, including the U.S., that didn’t ratify the Basel Convention. Malaysia emerged as a major destination for waste ...

Paracetamol (acetaminophen) production could be revolutionized by the discovery that a common bacterium can turn everyday plastic waste into the painkiller. The new method leaves virtually no ...

A new study from the University of Delaware and Columbia University looked at plastic bag bans and fees in jurisdictions across the United States to gauge their effectiveness. The researchers found ...

Policies that have banned or imposed fees on plastic bags are leading to significant declines in plastic litter along U.S. shorelines, a new study has found. These state- and local-level regulation… ...

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 29 April 2025 Himalayan landfills teem with plastic-eating microbes Enzymes could point to greener waste management You have full access to this article via your institution.

04-22-2025 DESIGN How Anthropologie saved 60,000 pounds of plastic bags from going into landfills Retailers throw out millions of plastic bags used to transport garments through the supply chain.

Smyle is boasting that its use of toothpaste tablets instead of tubes has saved 10 million plastic packages from entering the ocean.

A law passed in 2022 required producers of plastic foam foodware to demonstrate a recycling rate of 25% by 2025 to continue using the material. Since they didn’t meet that target, CalRecycle ...

Today, the Council and the European Parliament provisionally agreed on a regulation on preventing the loss of plastic pellets – the industrial raw materials used to make plastic products – into the ...

Landfills, environments where plastics are an abundant resource, are crucibles of bacterial evolution. Liyan Song and colleagues collected plastic biocatalytic enzymes from landfills around the ...

Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern University chemists have developed a simple new method for breaking down plastic waste.