Plastic is everywhere. Humans produce so much plastic that we end up throwing away about 400 million tons of plastic-related trash every year. And researchers are learning that this trash doesn't stay ...

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste is accelerating its transition from pilot projects to system-wide solutions, reducing more than 138,000 tonnes of unmanaged plastic waste in 2025 while mobilizing ...

Plastic is just about everywhere, piling up in streams, landfills, and even our bloodstreams and placentas. The United Nations agrees that something must be done, given both the excess of waste and ...

Sarawak has unveiled a groundbreaking eco-friendly asphalt road made from 400 kilograms of plastic waste, marking a ...

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste announced a shift in focus from small projects to wide-scale efforts to improve recycling on a national scale. | spwidoff/Shutterstock Five years after its ...

In 2021, thousands of used milk bottles in Shanghai found a second life. More than 6,000 bottles, along with other plastic waste, were used in a road project at East China University of Science and ...

Plastic is now becoming as much of a problem as it has been a solution. Some say the global plastic waste crisis has reached a critical tipping point, that the oceans are swimming with microplastics, ...

India generates 26,000 tonnes of plastic waste every day, which leads to 9.5 million tonnes a year. How can plastic-to-fuel ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Plastic, made up of 99% oil, often seen as a plan B for the petrochemical industry Difficulties dealing with plastic ...

In Thailand, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) announced it has awarded a $695,820 grant to Thailand’s VAO Energy for a feasibility study to develop a large plastic recycling facility with ...

Bangladesh has developed a very efficient system of taking goods from the factory to the consumer. We are not as organized ...

Bangladesh's new plastic waste policy must integrate economic incentives and informal recyclers to achieve a circular economy ...