People in low-income urban communities in the Global South without access to reliable energy sources are burning the toxic ...

Plastic is now becoming as much of a problem as it has been a solution. Some say the global plastic waste crisis has reached a critical tipping point, that the oceans are swimming with microplastics, ...

The Coca-Cola Foundation partnered with the United Nations Development Programme to address the plastic waste problem in Asia. Urgent solutions to single-use plastic waste are needed across the ...

For decades, recycling plastic has been a losing game — too slow, too expensive, and too limited in scope. Most methods rely on high-heat extrusion and mechanical separation, degrading the material ...

For those of you over a certain age, you may remember this now famous line from the movie, The Graduate, delivered by the character Mr. McGuire to Benjamin Braddock, played by the actor Justin Hoffman ...

Our thoughts are with those affected by this disaster. This incident is reminiscent of what happened in Payatas 25 years ago.

A University of Texas at Arlington scientist’s research could have an impact on one of the world’s most pressing problems: plastic waste. Plastic waste has become a major environmental concern. From ...

Sahadat Hossain, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, shows a sample of recycled plastic in asphalt and a bag of recycled plastic used to make the asphalt, May 1, ...

Four years after Germany phased out light plastic bags, how has the EU addressed plastic waste— and why do single-use items ...

Plastic quietly piles up in Vietnam’s cities, a relentless tide of thin shopping bags, foam food containers and disposable ...