Households, schools and communities are being asked to record their plastic packaging waste as part of an annual survey documenting UK’s waste problem. Campaign group Everyday Plastic have already ...

It's Earth Week, here's how consumers and companies are trying to improve waste management across the country.

Chemical recycling uses heat or chemicals to break down plastics. The main method, a process known as pyrolysis, has long ...

The global plastic crisis has long been a ticking time bomb, but now, it seems, a revolution is underway. One company, Corsair Group International, is rewriting the narrative of waste management with ...

UK was close behind, exporting 675,000 tonnes, with much of the waste sent to Turkey, Malaysia and Indonesia ...

Scientists are exploring a method to convert plastic waste into fuels and valuable chemicals using sunlight, potentially ...

After previously trying out low-tech compression molding with a toaster oven and 3D printed molds, [future things] is back ...

Among the various plastic recycling methods being explored, one promising approach is biological plastic recycling, also ...

Investigative journalist John Stossel investigates why recycling plastic is counterproductive. He speaks with science writer John Tierney about why it would be cheaper and more environmentally ...

This collaboration between four RASEI Fellows shows how electricity can be used to impart ‘superoxide powers’ to oxygen gas molecules from air, enabling the efficient recycling of PET plastics. In ...