A team of chemists may have found a way to solve the plastic recycling problem - and it starts with a little help from nickel ...

Boompods is developing products made from plastic dumped on beaches and in the sea.

Trend alert: Recycled plastic is now in style. Over the last few years, fashion brands—particularly in the direct-to-consumer space—began rolling out products made from discarded plastic. In ...

The primary ingredient in Super Glue forms a moldable plastic that can be reduced back down to raw materials, making it more recyclable that petroleum-based plastics.

First, the mixed recyclables are shredded and crushed into smaller fragments, enabling more effective separation. The mixed fragments pass over rotating screens that remove cardboard and paper, ...

A stretch of a new bike path in the Dutch city of Zwolle looks like it’s made of red asphalt. But the path is the first experiment in building a road from recycled plastic. “We used post ...

So many brands are creating lines of clothes made from recycled plastic water bottles. How sustainable are they really?

I was kindly sent these Plastic blanks to try out from Atlas Games, they are made mostly from melted down High Density ...

Rat d’Hôtel, the Beirut-based collaborative design house, unveils its newest creation: limited-edition stools crafted from recycled plastic, developed in partnership with Plastc Lab, Lebanon’s ...

Lego is finally on its way to making its iconic toy bricks more sustainable. The toymaker unveiled this week a prototype brick made entirely of recycled plastic — but it's not yet available in ...

The way we normally recycle plastics is a downward spiral of waste and degraded materials, but there is another option – turning plastic back into the oil it was made from.

An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.