"The bottom line drives a lot of innovation." Startup develops game-changing solution for major problem with common waste: 'I ...

Businesses with ambitions to shrink their plastic waste travel a rocky road. Their battle en route to their sustainability ...

Environmentalists from Highland, Michigan City, East Chicago, Hobart and Valparaiso gathered Wednesday at Valparaiso University to start working together on ways to address the proliferation of ...

Van Dyk Recycling Solutions uses vertical integration to tackle the global plastic waste crisis through advanced processing.

The rapid accumulation of plastic waste is currently posing significant risks for both human health and the environment on ...

Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern University chemists have developed a simple new method for breaking down plastic waste. The non-toxic, environmentally friendly, solvent-free process first ...

Americans, on average, toss out about three quarters of a pound of plastic each day, according to researchers at Oxford University. Most of that trash winds up in a landfill. As someone who loves ...

Commitments Accelerator for Plastic Pollution seeks to identify and fund successful plastic diversion ideas around the world. There are already “proven initiatives, especially how they operate and ...

Landfills are overflowing with plastic trash. Serial inventor Jonathan Rothberg’s Protein Evolution found a solution: using AI to create enzymes that can recycle old polyester textiles into a material ...

Using automatic coffee makers that require K-cups (or other plastic pods) directly contributes to plastic pollution, so it's best to skip them altogether. Instead, invest in biodegradable or stainless ...

Every year, over 14 million tons of plastic ends up in the ocean. Previously pristine beaches are now overrun with litter and microplastics have been found in the sand of the world's most remote ...

Halloween treats have a tricky problem: plastic packaging that’s difficult to recycle. As America loaded up on an estimated 600 million pounds of candy for Halloween, a handful of companies tried to ...