Each year, over 350 million tons of plastic are produced, much of it ending up in landfills or the ocean. A major contributor is polyethylene terephthalate (PET), used in everything from soda bottles ...

Every year, the world produces roughly 400 million metric tons of plastic waste, according to the United Nations Environment ...

A group of students in Ukraine whose lives have been interrupted by the four-year war with Russia hasn't lost the spirit for innovation. As a result, they have developed a way to use recycled plastic ...

India, April 29 -- In a breakthrough that bridges environmental science and medicine, researchers have demonstrated that ...

Advanced recycling offers something conventional recycling never could — a way to truly undo plastic.

Paracetamol production could be revolutionized by the discovery that a common bacterium can turn everyday plastic waste into the painkiller, a study reveals. The new method leaves virtually no carbon ...

Here's a rather novel way to keep trash out of landfills: engineering biologists at the University of Edinburgh have developed a way to turn the common plastic used for disposable bottles into the ...

Plastic waste is an exploding global problem, with minimal recycling resulting in incineration as a common disposal practice. Shipments of plastic products and plastic waste from the Global North to ...

Scientists have discovered how to turn used plastic bottles into a drug to treat Parkinson’s disease. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh genetically engineered bacteria to break down waste ...