A new federal government report finds major potential to use recycled plastic in infrastructure items like pipe but also highlights significant economic and environmental challenges to growth in other ...

Mac Chen and Ed Gadasu had the same considerations when it came to their senior design project: they wanted something to round out their studies of the materials field and something that felt ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Co-Founder, Conspiracy of Love, and Good is the New Cool. What do you do when you’ve pulled over 7 million pounds of plastic out ...

It’s pretty wild how much plastic waste we generate, right? It feels like it’s everywhere. But what if we could actually use ...

Read about the winning recycled plastic design in the Pleiades - Plastic European Innovation Award for Design and ...

In this video, we explore signmaking using recycled HDPE plastic. Our project involves creating a two-colour sign by engraving into the first layer to reveal the second, addressing the challenge of ...

For years, the toymaker Lego has been trying to figure out how to make its plastic building blocks out of sustainable materials. It’s experimented with all kinds of things — Brazilian sugarcane, for ...

The dual needs to reduce the consumption of new resources in creating plastic products and to reduce the eventual creation of plastic waste when products have been used drive the pursuit of recycled ...

Last month, the American Chemistry Council, a petrochemical industry trade group, sent out a newsletter highlighting a major new report on what it presented as a promising solution to the plastic ...

A green accounting method called “mass balance” certifies that something was manufactured with recycled plastic — just not necessarily much of the bottle making the claim. By Julie Creswell and Hiroko ...