Hundreds of millions of tons of plastic are produced globally every year. New research shows how that waste can be turned ...

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Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, ...

When Briana Bosch started her Colorado flower farm, Blossom and Branch, the fifth-generation farmer—her family had a dairy and corn farm—mimicked what her family had always done: plastic landscape ...

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People walking the streets of downtown Petaluma, California, started seeing something new on the sidewalks in summer. Alongside the usual trash cans and recycling containers were large purple bins ...

Sophia Garcia’s favorite thing about Cal football games is talking trash — literally. The UC Berkeley sophomore works on the Cal Zero Waste staff, which launched an effort to swap out single-use cups ...

EDINBURGH, Scotland — Every year, 24 million tons of plastic bottles are thrown away worldwide. But what if those discarded water bottles could save lives instead of choking our planet? Scientists ...

Environmental activists have for years pressed Amazon to reduce the plastic used in shipping more than 20 million packages daily. Amazon's latest sustainability report shows that the company is ...