More than 10 years ago, Dave Hakkens, a then-student at the Eindhoven Design Academy, released a free, replicable design for a plastic recycling machine, Euronews reported. This design was made ...

Shredded plastic can be transformed into beautiful new things. People involved in more than 400 projects around the world are using a recycling system that they downloaded for free from the internet.

An ambitious project at UC Berkeley aims to take plastic and break it down to create new plastic. Scientists at Berkeley said they have discovered a new way to vaporize plastic bottles and bags. What ...

With millions of tons of plastic ending up in landfills and oceans each year, there is a massive ecological need to improve recycling efforts. New recycling methods are designed to increase the amount ...

But this breakthrough doesn't stand alone; recent developments in plastic science and recycling include pyrolysis research to ...

More than 11,000 plastic bottles were collected in the first week of pilot project. Rome’s Mayor Virginia Raggi tests out reverse vending machines during the launch of Ricicli+Viaggi pilot project.

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 ...