When New Yorkers pick up takeout, they expect dinner — not a dose of PFAS and microplastics. Yet that’s the reality when hot food sits in disposable clamshells, waxy soup cups or plastic deli tubs.

Our new study set out to understand what happens to large pieces of floating plastic once they enter the ocean. We developed ...

Scientists found that even if all plastic dumping stopped today, floating plastics would take over 100 years to vanish.

A study published in Nature Communications has shown that, rather than being discarded, plastics can be transformed into valuable carbon nanomaterials that help solve both energy and environmental ...

At 16, Miranda Wang visited a waste dump and vowed to fix plastic pollution. Today, her startup Novoloop has raised $50 million to turn trash into high-value materials.

The US-based startup, founded by Rolex Laureate Miranda Wang, has transformed its LifeCycled™ waste into products such as ...

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a ...

Residents wanting to have their leaves picked up this fall will have the opportunity starting next week with their regular trash pickup.

A series of pop-up recycling events are set to take place in Newport. The events, organised by Newport City Council, aim to make recycling more accessible by bringing services into the heart of the ...

Three years ago, Mark Remy decided he was fed up with the litter in his city. So, he started to do something about it and ...

I opened up 10 Hot Wheels collectibles that are neither basic nor Premium! And I'm quite enthusiastic about some of them!

By KATIE WORKMAN If you’ve ever wandered into the cheese section with the innocent intent of “just picking up some mozzarella ...