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New Solar-Powered Beach Robot Filters Even Tiny Plastic – And 30x Faster Than Humans
4Ocean, the guys who you may have seen on Instagram selling bracelets made out of ocean plastic as a way to fund their ocean...
India Bans Long List of Single-Use Plastics Starting Next July
The second-most populous country in the world has banned an array of single use plastics, such as cutlery, plates, and thin bags, beginning July,...
Americans Want to Use Less Plastic and They Hoard Containers Rather Than Tossing, Poll Shows
If you feel like you’re hoarding plastic containers in your home, you’re not alone. A new poll found 62% of Americans surveyed would rather...
Mussels Can Help Filter Microplastics Out of Our Oceans Without Any Harm to the Molluscs
Instead of shelling out for a water filtration plant, mussels' constant filter feeding is being tested as a potential wide-scale application for microplastic clean-up...
LEGO Unveils First Brick Prototype Made from Recycled Plastic –Watch Their ‘Clutch Strength’ and Smash Testing
LEGO recently announced they now have a prototype brick made from recycled plastic that lives up to company standards for the iconic building toy.
The...
Nigerian Homes Built From Thousands of Plastic Bottles –12x Stronger Than Brick And Earthquake Strong
New Mexico is known for its adobe dwellings, Kyoto for its wooden temples, and now, in rural Nigeria, there are villages making waves for...
8 Cheap Gardening Hacks For Plants – Using Wine and Plastic Bottles, Orange Peels and Coffee Grounds
If you think of TikTok as a place where tweens and members of Gen Z perform unfathomable dance moves and viral sea shanties for...
60+ Major Companies Sign ‘Radical’ Deal to Dramatically Reduce Plastic Waste in Just 4 Years
Major affiliates supplying supermarkets in Australia and New Zealand have come together and pledged to tackle Oceania's plastic waste crisis.
Of the more than 60...
‘The Manta’ Sailing Vessel is Designed to Feed on Plastic Waste for Power – While Cleaning Oceans
A professional yacht racer in France, annoyed by the constant sightings of floating mats of plastic garbage in coastal waters, has designed an ocean-cleaning...
Scientists Make Microplastics Breakthrough, Devising Method to Trap And Remove Them
Microbiologists have found a way to use bacteria to trap microplastics, removing them from the environment and making them easier to recycle.
The new technique,...
Scientists Create World’s First Truly Biodegradable Single-use Plastic That ‘Eats Itself’ in Just 2 Weeks
Despite our efforts to sort and recycle, less than 9% of plastic gets recycled in the U.S., and most ends up in landfill or...
Tesco, the UK’s Biggest Supermarket Chain, Removed 1 Billion Pieces of Plastic From Across Its Stores in 2020
By working with its suppliers, Tesco managed to permanently remove one billion pieces of plastic from its UK stores in 2020.
Customers at Britain's largest...
Sir David Attenborough Backs This New Tech That Can Recycle All Plastics
A new recycling plant under construction in England features technologies that can break down any kind of plastic polymer into its constituent elements for...
India Fishermen Divert Their Catch of Ocean Plastic So it Can Be Used to Rebuild Roads
In the state of Kerala, known as the Jewel of South India, fishermen are taking it upon themselves to keep it that way and...
Coldplay Adopts a Barge That Plucks Plastic Out of the River –Before it Flows to the Ocean
The Ocean Cleanup project launched by a Dutch youth a decade ago to tackle the Pacific garbage patch has in recent years begun to...
How to Turn Plastic Waste From Your Recycle Bin Into Profit
This article, by Joshua M. Pearce of Michigan Technological University, has been republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.
People will recycle...
12 Countries Have Built Roads Out of Plastic – And They Can Perform As Well or Better Than Asphalt
This article first appeared in Yale Environment 360 and is re-printed with permission.
A road running through Accra, Ghana’s capital, looks like any other blacktop....
Photo of Paralyzed Man Cleaning Plastic From India River Goes Viral – And He’s Showered With Gifts to Better His Life
A passion for photography has always possessed this young engineer from Kerala, India. Now he knows there was a purpose, after a photo he...
New Plant-Based Plastic Can Be Broken Down and Recycled With Near-Perfect Efficiency
Hoping to solve the plastic pollution problem, with recycling technology being too often inefficient, there seems to be a new biodegradable, bio-based substitute being...
Startup de Mujer Keniana Recicla Desechos Plásticos y Convierte en Ladrillos 5 Veces Más Fuertes que el Concreto
Nzambi Matee, que fabrica ladrillos de plástico, 5 veces más resistentes que el hormigón, dirige Njenge Makers en Nairobi, donde convierte los residuos plásticos en ladrillos.