Tea ranks as one of the most popular drinks on the planet. Billions of people brew it daily without thinking twice about what else might end up in their mug. When making tea, most of us focus on ...

Heading into the grocery store, without remembering to bring your reusable bags, you may be forced to pay the 5 cent per bag tax for that forgetfulness. As you rack up your bag use tally, you may be ...

Researchers have developed a solar-powered reactor that transforms hard-to-recycle plastic waste into clean hydrogen fuel and valuable industrial chemicals. The system, developed by a team at the ...

Water used to wash recycling materials in the study became progressively darker as it was reused. Photo courtesy of Greg Curtzwiler/Iowa State University. Researchers from Iowa State’s Polymer and ...

LAMA, a Santiago-based company founded in August 2025, is using industrial robotic arms fitted with specialized polymer extruders from the Italian company REV3RD to produce large-format design objects ...

Waterloo PhD student Wei Wei, who led the research – credit, University of Waterloo, released Researchers at the University of Waterloo have discovered a way to turn plastic waste into acetic acid, ...

A new book by the journalist Beth Gardiner argues that oil companies are upping production of the material as a safeguard against falling revenue. By Zoë Schlanger Zoë Schlanger is an environmental ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have discovered a way to turn plastic waste into acetic acid, the main ingredient of vinegar, using sunlight. The breakthrough offers a promising new approach ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have made recycled plastic into floor trusses for housing, arguing the waste stream could provide an abundant and sustainable structural building ...

Montreal, QC — A new technical conference dedicated exclusively to the science and optimization of extrusion processing will debut this summer as the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Extrusion ...

How recycled plastic coasters are made With Christmas around the corner, our coaster set production from recycled plastic is in full swing. This video showcases our process for making coaster sets, ...

The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent ...