Good stewards of the land and environmental champions often wonder how to reuse plastic plant pots. The last few generations have shown renewed interest in reusing cast-off items and there is more ...

"It means a lot that someone took time to care." Retirees make incredible new creations using hundreds of old plastic bags: 'It's just something I feel I should do' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Our planet is choking on plastics. Some of the worst offenders, which can take decades to degrade in landfills, are polypropylene—which is used for things such as food packaging and bumpers—and ...

LITTER STREETS, HIGHWAYS. BUT CITY LEADERS NOW SAY WE NEED TO DO BETTER AT RECYCLING PLASTIC. AS THE STORY KMBC NINE INVESTIGATES HAS FOLLOWED FOR MONTHS NOW. TRASH FLYING OUT OF TRUCKS AND COLLECTING ...

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 ...

Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are winners of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating a plastic that can be infinitely recycled. Can you design a new type of plastic that ...

Inside the GreenWaste San Jose Material Recovery Facility, both human and mechanical hands work to separate the pieces of ink-stained paper, dented multi-colored plastic and crushed metal that can be ...

As plastic piles up in landfills, New York authorities on the state and local levels are shifting their focus from recycling to reduction. Bales of sorted plastic for recycling are seen in a warehouse ...