A new brand of offsetting allows companies to call themselves "plastic-neutral" while continuing to use plastic themselves. What's it all...

As reported in Science on October 13, mixtures of plastics, which are usually difficult to recycle, have been broken down into useful,...

Packaging providers are under considerable pressure to provide alternative and eco-friendly packaging solutions from manufacturers,...

The global obesity epidemic is getting worse, especially among children, with rates of obesity rising over the past decade and shifting...

The issue of how we (as a planet) deal with plastic is one of the greatest challenges the world currently faces. A report published...

In an earlier post, we discussed the major threats that microplastics may pose to the environment. While human bodies cannot break down...

It’s an undeniably compelling notion: Take waste plastics of all types and turn them back into the building blocks for new plastics,...

Microplastics are the tiny plastic particles that form as a result of the larger items being broken down, and also manufactured for...

India on Friday implemented a ban the sale and distribution of single-use plastic as a measure to protect the environment, even though...

We all want to achieve circularity and carbon neutrality. Citizens demand it and in today's case, specifically EU has set its sights on...

The plastics industry claims that ‘chemical recycling’ or ‘advanced recycling’ technologies, which use heat or solvents to convert waste...

The need of the hour certainly is to opt for the green goods and the sustainable alternatives for every wearable. While the concept of...

The world is drowning in plastic. About 60% of the more than 8,700 million metric tonnes of plastic ever made is no longer in use,...

In order to reduce demand for petroleum-based plastics that result in environmental harm (eg, in the form of excess waste and global...

“The existing linear economy isn’t sustainable. Our goal is to help create a circular economic structure,” said Kim Jeungbin, founder and...

Next Generation Plastic/Carbon Combo Credits: Creating a Circular Economy Businesses and investors are lining up to commit to plastic...

Aside from the problem of disposal, there’s another nasty side to plastic: the source. It’s easy to forget that plastics are made from...

According to a recent poll, plastic in the oceans has overtaken climate change as the environmental issue of greatest concern....

Plastic is carbon. Plastics begin as a fossil fuel, and greenhouse gases are emitted at every stage of their lifecycle: oil and gas...

Recycled ocean-bound plastic could eventually be 3D printed The issue of plastic pollution – and by extent ocean plastic pollution – is...