ByFusion aims to make building more sustainable. The company created ByBlock, the first construction-grade brick made entirely out of recycled plastic materials. “We have been working hard over the ...

A radical new process “vaporizes” plastic bags and bottles to help make recycled materials. American scientists say the innovative chemical procedure turns ubiquitous waste items into hydrocarbon ...

In a kind of addition-by-subtraction, chemists at the University of Florida have developed a technique to create highly ...

The disposal of plastics is a global problem. They are nearly indestructible in natural conditions but are discarded worldwide on a large scale. The world produces around 400 tons of plastics each ...

Imagine taking heaps and heaps of earth-polluting, unusable plastic waste and actually transforming it into something constructive? Plastic pollution is a proliferating and increasingly overwhelming ...

Over the past five years or so we've seen some important breakthroughs demonstrating how enzymes can be used to break down common plastics, such as the PET used for everything from drink bottles to ...

Lego, the iconic toy company know for its building blocks, is changing its formula for building plastic bricks to help the environment. Legos, the ubiquitous building blocks known to children around ...

Recycling sounds great in principle (because it is), but a frustrating number of devils lurk in the details. For example, while some materials like aluminum can readily be melted down and turned right ...